Re:APFS does not normalize Unicode filenames
by msbarnett on Saturday March 25, 2017 @08:33PM
(#13958298)
> です: particle (pronounced desu) (hiragana)
(While we're being pedantic)
です isn't a particle, it's the imperfective (present/future) polite form of the copular verb (to be, in English). The only particle in that sentence is は.
And as a further side note, some words or names normally written in kanji or hiragana are ocassionally written in katakana for emphasis or to emphasize a foreign nature.
To reiterate:
• Chinese characters are called hànzì¹
• modern Japanese uses many hànzì, calling them kanji² instead
• katakana³ is used in modern Japanese to write words of foreign origin (loanwords) as well as onomatopoeia and is romanized as katakana, not katagana
• hiragana⁴ is used in modern Japanese to write okurigana⁵, particles, and certain words, and is romanized as hiragana, not hiregana
Here’s a typical (and extremely simple) sentence in modern Japanese that uses all three:
この文はサンプルです。
This is a sample sentence.
この: this (hiragana)
文: sentence (kanji)
は: particle (pronounced wa) (hiragana)
サンプル: sample (loanword; pronounced sanpuru) (katakana)
です: particle (pronounced desu) (hiragana)
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¹ — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_characters
² — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanji
³ — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katakana
⁴ — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiragana
⁵ — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okurigana