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> There are occasionally Japanese words written in katakana (e.g. ラーメン) and foreign words written in hiragana (e.g. たばこ). Also, katakana can be used to emphasize Japanese words (like WE DO in English) (e.g. キミ).

If you look back far enough (but as recent as the beginning of the Showa era), you'll even find entire sentences written in katakana+kanji.




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