Katakana (片仮名, カタカナ)
Katakana (片仮名, カタカナ?) is In contrast to the hiragana syllabary, which is used for those Japanese language words and grammatical inflections which kanji does not cover, the katakana syllabary usage is quite similar to italics in English; specifically, it is used for transcription of foreign language words into Japanese and the writing of loan words (collectively gairaigo); for emphasis; to represent onomatopoeia; for technical and scientific terms; and for names of plants, animals, minerals, and often Japanese companies.
Katakana are characterized by shor[3] There are two main systems of ordering katakana: the old-fashioned iroha ordering, and the more prevalent gojūon orderingt, straight strokes and sharp corners, and are the simplest of the Japanese scripts
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