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by vorg 4190 days ago
Katakata, like zhuyin, is "hanzi/kanji written small", just as hiragana is "hanzi written quickly". I see hanzi/kanji, katakana, and zhuyin (but not hiragana) as all part of the same "alphabet" used to build up hanzi recursively. Many katakana are components of hanzi.
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Maybe, but this is rather like using a Cyrillic letter in a Spanish-teaching website. "What language are you teaching anyways?"