katakana
Portuguese, noun
katakana is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “katakana (Japanese syllabary)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “silabário japonês, um dos três sistemas de escrita da língua japonesa, usado para escrever palavras…”.
What does katakana mean in English?
noun
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masculinekatakana (Japanese syllabary)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. silabário japonês, um dos três sistemas de escrita da língua japonesa, usado para escrever palavras estrangeiras, afora as chinesas
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
English words that translate to katakana
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is katakana in Portuguese?
katakana appears about once in every 22 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).