Ayu in Katakana
 

Does anyone know how to spell Ayu's name in Katakana? I think it's A-Yu-Mi Ha-Ma-Sa-Ki but I'm not sure. If you could, just type it out in Romanji.

hai its...
a-yu-mi ha-ma-sa-ki

the attachment is what it looks like in katakana

wuts katakana?

i think it's another way of writing for the Japanese. Like kanji and hiragana :)

o, ok- thx!

Katakana is used when a Japanese person wants to spell anything thats normally writen in English..for example peoples names, alot of signs you'll see in Japan are writen in Katakana because they are English words.
Katakana and Hiragana have all the same sounds cept they are all drawn differently (of course).

I hope that helps a little bit more! ^_^

hiragana: http://www.geocities.com/fsdrl//hiragana.html
katakana: http://www.geocities.com/fsdrl//katakana.html
just a small example of kanji: http://www.geocities.com/fsdrl//kanjifirst.html

hiragana and katakana are the simple part of the the japanese language [writing wise], kanji [the part simlliar w/ chinese writing], is the more complex writing

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AYE. I DONT GET KANJI. thers al ike different symbol for every word? no pattern?!

not always... "he" is exactly the same in both scripts, and "ri" is vaguely similar too... katakana isnt limited only to foreign loan words either... onomatopoeic sounds are usually written in katakana, as well as the majority of plants and some animals too... telegrams can be composed purely of katakana as well, hard to read tho :P

whats interesting [in a geekish way] is that both hiragana and katakana evolve from kanji... hiragana "cursive kanji characters" are stylised forms of kanji, while katakana is "fragment of kanji", each katakana is part of a kanji, like a radical (i, u, ka, ni, mo etc...) or just random parts of it... sorry thats not such a good explanation, im only a student of japanese after all, not a teacher...

kanji are originally pictograms, but have been stylised beyond recognition in most cases... however their original forms are more apparent in meaning, if i had the will id look around for examples, but its been a long day at work... :P :thumbsup

This is becoming too technical but if you desperately want to understand how kanji developed, first there are simple looking kanji for things like fire, water, sky, one two three, and they actually resembled what they are supposed to mean. Water is somewhat like this |||. The lines are actually curvy and looks like a river. From these simple kanji came more complex kanji which represents abstract ideas or 'difficult-to-draw' objects. Example: water + eye = tears, woman + kindness = mother, wood + wood + wood = forest etc. There are other ways kanji are formed but I guess I'll stop here. :rolleyes

yup, like birds in a tree expresses ~to assemble / gather~ and lose/die over heart/mind = to forget...
impressive how they found pictures to represent everything