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*transliteration of foreign words and names, such as {{lang|ja|コンピュータ}} (''konpyūta'', "computer") and {{lang|ja|ロンドン}} (''Rondon'', "London"). However, some foreign borrowings that were naturalized may be rendered in hiragana, such as たばこ (''tabako'', "tobacco"), which comes from Portuguese. See also [[Transcription into Japanese]].
*commonly used names of animals and plants, such as {{lang|ja|トカゲ}} (''tokage'', "lizard"), {{lang|ja|ネコ}} (''neko'', "cat") and {{lang|ja|バラ}} (''bara'', "rose"), and certain other technical and scientific terms,
*occasionally, the names of miscellaneous other objects whose kanji are rare, such as {{lang|ja|ローソク}} (''rōsoku'', "candle"); the kanji form, {{lang|ja|蝋燭}}, contains the [[hyōgaiji]] {{lang|ja|蝋}}.
*[[onomatopoeia]], such as {{lang|ja|ワンワン}} (''wan-wan'', "woof-woof"), and other [[Japanese sound symbolism|sound symbolism]]
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