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Kanji can be transliterated either way, and both forms are lossy since there are so many homonyms and kana only encodes sounds. It's traditional to annotate dif
by achamayou 10y ago
Kanji can be transliterated either way, and both forms are lossy since there are so many homonyms and kana only encodes sounds. It's traditional to annotate difficult Kanji pronunciation with small Hiragana called Furigana, for example in children's books. But it could be done all the same in Katakana. Modern Chinese words that Japanese borrows are usually translated in Katakana for example.
- klodolph 10y agoKana mostly contain just sounds, but do contain some morphological information—there are homonyms in kana as well, after all. This is a bit rare, however.
- xigency 10y agoWhile possible phonetically, it would be strange to see kanji transliterated as katakana. But I guess there are some Japanese sources that are written all in katakana.