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Japanese alphabet and characters
Here are some of the Japanese characters. If your document is not showing correctly, then first check that the encoding for that program and font supports Japanese.
Kanji
Katakana
Hiragana
Japanese grammar rules
Nouns
Japanese is an agglutinative language. Nouns have no grammatical gender, number and articles, therefore they are noninflecting (although nouns can take politeness prefixes).
There is no differentiation between mass and count nouns.
Verbs
Japanese formatting rules
Date formats
Short date format | yyyy.mm.dd. |
e.g. 2016/03/17 or 平成 17/3/16 | |
Long date format | yyyy 年 M 月 d 日 or gg y 年 M 月 d 日 |
e.g. 2016 年 3 月 17 日 or 平成 23 年 3 月 16 日 |
Numbers and measurements
Japanese capitalisation usage
Use of capitalisation
This section does not apply to Japanese.
Solutions for Japanese
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