片仮名

Etymology
Compound of. 片 is in turn a cognate with.

Noun

 * 1) Katakana, a set of Japanese syllabary characters, secondary to hiragana, derived from portions of Chinese characters whose sounds approximate the Japanese sound being represented. Chiefly thought of as being used for loanwords (cf. ), it has a number of other uses too, complementing hiragana; see