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The above is from a postcard sent by a local tax office in 1991 showing receipt of an income tax payment. The address of the bank written in kanji would be: 東京都 新宿区 新宿 Because the address is written in half-width kana, the 濁点（だくてん） appears as a separate character (シ゛) rather than as part of the preceding character (ジ) . The 半濁点（はんだくてん） would appear similarly (ヒ゜ instead of ピ, for example). Note also that the small kana are written full-sized (キヨ instead of キョ). |
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To the left is a receipt from a convenience store received in 2000. Although the cash register is able to print kanji and full-width hiragana (as in おむすび), the katakana continue to be written half-width. Note, for example, that "7-Eleven Low-Fat Milk" is given approximately as セフ゛ン−イレフ゛ン低脂肪乳 rather than as セブン−イレブン低脂肪乳 This continuing use of half-width katakana even in a system that can handle the full Japanese character set is curious. (On the receipt, unlike in the above example, each katakana character, including the ゛ and ゜ diacritics, is exactly half the width of the kanji or hiragana.) |
