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Evilmonkey · 16th May 2005, 14:19

You would use either Hiragana and Katakana. To spell it out.

Hiragana is used to write exlusivly Japanese only words. Katakana is used for writing foriegn words or in advertising.

I recommend using Katakana for your drawing as it looks much cooler (hence why its used in advertising) and is easier to draw/write.

Basically double letter sounds make up one character (except for vowls and a couple others).

There is 52ish of them but really there is upto 100+ depending how you look at it. Both Hiragana and Katakana use the exact same sounds but just write the sound differently (a few exceptions of course).

Anyways just do a simple search for a basic table. But the ones you are looking for are

Sa
mu
ra
i
a

So you would need six Characters.

Alternatly you could just use the Kanji for Samurai and add the double vowl A to the end using kata or hira.

Pretty easy really. If you write in Katakana to extend the vowl sound you use kinda like a hyphen after the character for a. As a long vowl sound for the A in Japanese would sound exactly like ahh.

I don't have japanese characters installed on work PC otherwise Id post it up for you.

This table is pretty good.

http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/~ts/japanese/table_k.html

And heres one for Hiragana

http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/~ts/japanese/table.html

Note double vowls for Hiragana are just writen twice you don't use the dash.

16th May 2005, 14:19	#16
Evilmonkey	You would use either Hiragana and Katakana. To spell it out. Hiragana is used to write exlusivly Japanese only words. Katakana is used for writing foriegn words or in advertising. I recommend using Katakana for your drawing as it looks much cooler (hence why its used in advertising) and is easier to draw/write. Basically double letter sounds make up one character (except for vowls and a couple others). There is 52ish of them but really there is upto 100+ depending how you look at it. Both Hiragana and Katakana use the exact same sounds but just write the sound differently (a few exceptions of course). Anyways just do a simple search for a basic table. But the ones you are looking for are Sa mu ra i a So you would need six Characters. Alternatly you could just use the Kanji for Samurai and add the double vowl A to the end using kata or hira. Pretty easy really. If you write in Katakana to extend the vowl sound you use kinda like a hyphen after the character for a. As a long vowl sound for the A in Japanese would sound exactly like ahh. I don't have japanese characters installed on work PC otherwise Id post it up for you. This table is pretty good. http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/~ts/japanese/table_k.html And heres one for Hiragana http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/~ts/japanese/table.html Note double vowls for Hiragana are just writen twice you don't use the dash. Last edited by Evilmonkey : 16th May 2005 at 14:29.