# Can on'yomi answers be typed in katakana?
**URL:** https://community.wanikani.com/t/can-onyomi-answers-be-typed-in-katakana/19376
**Category:** WaniKani
**Created:** [August 17, 2017, 1:47pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/can-onyomi-answers-be-typed-in-katakana/19376 "2017-08-17T13:47:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@peterb12](https://community.wanikani.com/u/peterb12)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2017, 1:47pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/can-onyomi-answers-be-typed-in-katakana/19376/1 "2017-08-17T13:47:54Z")
I notice that when giving on’ readings, Jisho always provides them in katakana. Will wanikani accept katakana as correct for on readings of kanji, specifically?
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### Author:  [@magiconic](https://community.wanikani.com/u/magiconic)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2017, 1:48pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/can-onyomi-answers-be-typed-in-katakana/19376/2 "2017-08-17T13:48:36Z")
No.
it’ll count it wrong if you do
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### Author:  [@sCreami](https://community.wanikani.com/u/sCreami)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2017, 1:56pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/can-onyomi-answers-be-typed-in-katakana/19376/3 "2017-08-17T13:56:06Z")
I’m confident that you’ll be pleased with this userscript.
> [@\[Userscript\] WaniKani Katakana Madness](https://community.wanikani.com/t/Userscript-WaniKani-Katakana-Madness/15716):
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> This is Katakana Madness. Basically this script transforms all on’yomi readings to katakana, including dashboard, all the overview and infopages and even the lessons and reviews. From now on you need to answer your on’yomi readings in katakana. The input field automatically changes your input to katakana, so don’t worry just answer them like you always did. Reviews: Overview: And every other page… Download: [https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/26481-wanikani-katakana-madn…](https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/26481-wanikani-katakana-madness)
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### Author:  [@Leebo](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Leebo)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2017, 2:02pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/can-onyomi-answers-be-typed-in-katakana/19376/4 "2017-08-17T14:02:09Z")
That’s a dictionary convention. Like giving pronunciations in IPA in an English dictionary. It’s not related to real-world writing.
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### Author:  [@OreoRiley](https://community.wanikani.com/u/OreoRiley)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2017, 2:08pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/can-onyomi-answers-be-typed-in-katakana/19376/5 "2017-08-17T14:08:13Z")
No, and it shouldn’t really.
Kanji doesn’t use katakana. Dictionaries do this as a convention and to distinguish between the two types of reading to make it easier to see.
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### Author:  [@Helix](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Helix)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2017, 3:52pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/can-onyomi-answers-be-typed-in-katakana/19376/6 "2017-08-17T15:52:14Z")
Correct or not I think this would help my katakana literacy a lot 😅
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### Author:  [@OreoRiley](https://community.wanikani.com/u/OreoRiley)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2017, 4:06pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/can-onyomi-answers-be-typed-in-katakana/19376/7 "2017-08-17T16:06:42Z")
(Same… I might actually be able to remember over half of the characters instantly)
But the purist in me says no 😢
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### Author:  [@smartie344](https://community.wanikani.com/u/smartie344)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2017, 4:18pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/can-onyomi-answers-be-typed-in-katakana/19376/8 "2017-08-17T16:18:36Z")
I can identify all the katakana, but writing them from memory takes a while. Either I forget or confuse them with hiragana
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### Author:  [@Helix](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Helix)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2017, 6:07pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/can-onyomi-answers-be-typed-in-katakana/19376/9 "2017-08-17T18:07:53Z")
I don’t get it though, how is either hiragana or katakana more “pure” than the other? The reading is strictly phonetic, and carries no semantic meaning.
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### Author:  [@Gaidheal](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Gaidheal)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2017, 10:33pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/can-onyomi-answers-be-typed-in-katakana/19376/10 "2017-08-17T22:33:22Z")
If you want to get ‘pure’; historically katakana was used a lot more, and okurigana were in katakana, not hiragana.
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### Author:  [@OreoRiley](https://community.wanikani.com/u/OreoRiley)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2017, 10:49pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/can-onyomi-answers-be-typed-in-katakana/19376/11 "2017-08-17T22:49:18Z")
“Historically”… yeah, but it’s not anymore XD
That’s like saying, if you want pure, write in ancient Japanese.
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### Author:  [@Gaidheal](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Gaidheal)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2017, 10:51pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/can-onyomi-answers-be-typed-in-katakana/19376/12 "2017-08-17T22:51:41Z")
Well, you said it … 😛
(In other words, there is no such thing as pure, in language, and rarely in anything else, in reality)
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### Author:  [@Helix](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Helix)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2017, 10:52pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/can-onyomi-answers-be-typed-in-katakana/19376/13 "2017-08-17T22:52:42Z")
But in any case neither katakana nor hiragana is “more pure” for on’yomi. Since kun’yomi is usually written in hiragana if kanji is absent it’s a more natural choice for kun’yomi.
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### Author:  [@Leebo](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Leebo)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2017, 10:55pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/can-onyomi-answers-be-typed-in-katakana/19376/15 "2017-08-17T22:55:25Z")
So is onyomi… Katakana has some usages in text, but none of them are related to kun or on origin.
If you write ホン for “book” just because that word is the onyomi, everyone is going to think that’s odd.
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### Author:  [@OreoRiley](https://community.wanikani.com/u/OreoRiley)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2017, 11:02pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/can-onyomi-answers-be-typed-in-katakana/19376/16 "2017-08-17T23:02:44Z")
Must be French.
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### Author:  [@sCreami](https://community.wanikani.com/u/sCreami)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2017, 11:05pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/can-onyomi-answers-be-typed-in-katakana/19376/17 "2017-08-17T23:05:08Z")
Oh non, ma couverture est dévoilée ! 🥖:angryviet:
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### Author:  [@Lolasca](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Lolasca)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2017, 11:36pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/can-onyomi-answers-be-typed-in-katakana/19376/18 "2017-08-17T23:36:45Z")
Retourne te cacher, vite ! ㊙
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### Author:  [@OreoRiley](https://community.wanikani.com/u/OreoRiley)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2017, 2:39am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/can-onyomi-answers-be-typed-in-katakana/19376/19 "2017-08-18T02:39:38Z")
Hon hon baguette omelette du fromage
(I’m sorry. My French used to be okay but it sucks now)
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### Author:  [@sCreami](https://community.wanikani.com/u/sCreami)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2017, 11:50am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/can-onyomi-answers-be-typed-in-katakana/19376/20 "2017-08-18T11:50:54Z")
Don’t worry, french is not a real language, it’s just a meme french people came up with
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.wanikani.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2018, 12:02pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/can-onyomi-answers-be-typed-in-katakana/19376/21 "2018-08-18T12:02:15Z")
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