European thrush" does not. many legal terms where a short Latin phrase refers to a large body of law and precedent, such as habeas corpus, sub judice, in loco parentis. logic and mathematical terms such as QED, a priori, vice versa… In written Japanese, in addition to Kanji characters, the two distinct alphabets (more strictly, syllabaries) Hiragana and Katakana, both representing the same set of sounds, are used to distinguish phonetically spelled-out Japanese words from imported foreign words, respectively; Katakana is also used for emphasis, much like italics in English. See also Escape character Notes References Further reading Parsing