id: "Kana"
name: "Katakana"
family: "East Asian"
summary: "Katakana (<span class=\'autonym\'>片仮名、カタカナ</span>) is an East Asian syllabary, written vertically right-to-left and horizontally left-to-right (126 million users). Used in Japan for Japanese, Ryukyuan, Ainu and Palauan, and formerly for Taiwanese Hokkien. Katakana is used for transcription of foreign-language words into Japanese, for the writing of loan words, for emphasis, to represent onomatopoeia, for technical and scientific terms, for names of plants, animals and minerals, and often for names of Japanese companies."
