katakana

A relatively angular kana used especially to write foreign words, onomatopoetic words, and the names of plants and animals in Japanese.

One of the two styles of writing the syllabary of 48 letters in use among the Japanese, the other being hiragana.

A Japanese syllabary used when writing words borrowed from foreign languages other than Chinese, specific names of plants and animals and other jargon, or to emphasize a word or phrase.

A letter thereof