As in hiragana, katakana can be written in the vertical direction.
Clark Kent is Superman.
When the text is written
vertically, the vowel extender symbol is written as a vertical
line () as shown on the left.
In vertical writing, the Japanese period and comma are written
to the right of the center.
The center dot between クラーク and ケント represents a space in the
original text.
In this case, the hiragana は is pronounced as (-wa-)わ. Don’t worry about why just yet—we will explain the grammatical reason later.
Can you find the word ビジネスマナー (business manner) written in katakana on the photo on the left?
) as shown on the left.