Gesture Control

What Westerners, Europeans and others may not appreciate is how often native Japanese-speakers use gestures to disambiguate kanji when speaking due to the great number of homonyms in their morae-based language.

Will gesture-control of devices lead to such combined speech+gesture identification?

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Katakana Stroke Order & Direction

Animated stroke order and direction at http://www.umich.edu/~umichjlp/Katakanapro/index.html

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Hiragana and Romaji vowels with macrons

Ā ā Ī ī Ū ū Ē ē Ō ō

ん わ や ま は な た さ か あ み ひ に ち し き い
ゆ む ふ ぬ つ す く う
め へ ね て せ け え
お よ も ほ の と そ こ お

ご げ ぐ ぎ が
ぎょ ぎゅ ぎゃ

ぞ ぜ ず じ ざ
じょ じゅ じゃ

ど で づ ぢ だ
ぢょ ぢゅ ぢゃ

ば び ぶ べ ぼ
びょ びゅ びゃ

ぽ ぺ ぷ ぴ ぱ
ぴょ ぴゅ ぴゃ

[vu] ゔ

See:  http://www.umich.edu/~umichjlp/Hiraganapro/

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