Kana is a general term for the syllabic Japanese scripts hiragana (????) and katakana (????) as well as the old system known as man'y?gana. These were developed from the logographic characters of Chinese origin known in Japan as Kanji (; Chinese pronunciation "hànzì"), as an alternative and adjunct to these latter. In addition, kana were borrowed into Taiwanese to indicate the pronunciation of Chinese characters like furigana during the Japanese occupation of Taiwan. See Taiwanese kana. Hiragana and katakana · Neither Hiragana nor Katakana have kana to represent ye, yi or wu sounds. However, ye is believed to have existed as a syllable in pre-Classical Japanese (prior to the advent of kana), and is generally represented (for purposes of reconstruction) by the kanji ?. In later periods, the syllable we (represented by the katakana ? and hiragana

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