Where does “katakana” come from?
katakana (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Japanese 片仮名, from Japanese 仮名, from Japanese 名, from Middle Chinese 名 — name.
katakana (Serbo-Croatian): katakana
Ancestry of “katakana”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Japanese | 片仮名 | Katakana, a set of Japanese syllabary characters,... |
| 2 | Japanese | 仮名 | a category of Japanese syllabary scripts: kana; a... |
| 3 | Japanese | 名 | name; reputation; famous, great, noted |
| 4 | Middle Chinese | 名 | name |