derivations in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An extensive list of man’yōgana arranged according to the characters, and not their readings Tomasz Majtczak:...
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were Chinese characters used phonetically to transcribe Japanese (e.g. man'yōgana); and hentaigana, which are historical variants of the now-standard hiragana...
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kanji may still be written with kanji by employing either ateji (as in man'yogana, から = 可良) or jukujikun, as in the title of とある科学の超電磁砲 (超電磁砲 being used...
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Hentaigana are adapted from the reduced and cursive forms of the following man’yōgana (kanji) characters. Source characters for the kana are not repeated below...
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sections are written in Man'yōgana, which uses kanji for their phonetic as well as semantic values. Based on the Man'yōgana system, Old Japanese can...
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700s into the Man'yōgana system, a rebus-like transcription that uses specific kanji to represent Japanese phonemes. For instance, man'yōgana spells the...
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colloquial readings Kanbun Idu Variants Zetian characters Derived systems Kana man'yōgana hiragana katakana Jurchen script Khitan large small Nüshu Bopomofo Slavonic...
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colloquial readings Kanbun Idu Variants Zetian characters Derived systems Kana man'yōgana hiragana katakana Jurchen script Khitan large small Nüshu Bopomofo Slavonic...
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their sound values instead, in a system known as man'yōgana. Starting in the 9th century, specific man'yōgana were graphically simplified to create two distinct...
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in the modern kana syllabaries. Around 650 AD, a writing system called man'yōgana (used in the ancient poetry anthology Man'yōshū) evolved that used a number...
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significant for using the earliest Japanese writing system, the cumbersome man'yōgana. Though it was by no means the first use of this writing system—which...
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transliterate texts and works of arts from India, by taking parts of man'yōgana characters as a form of shorthand, hence this kana is so-called kata (片...
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hiragana script. Specifically, hiragana developed from cursive forms of the man'yōgana script, called sōgana (草仮名). In Japan, the sōgana cursive script was considered...
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the katakana ナ two. Both represent [na]. な and ナ originate from the man'yōgana 奈. な is used as part of the okurigana for the plain negative forms of...
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Japan, the early use of Chinese characters for Japanese grammar was in man'yōgana, which was replaced by kana, the Japanese syllabic script. Characters...
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U+3042, and the Unicode for ア is U+30A2. The katakana ア derives, via man'yōgana, from the left element of kanji 阿. The hiragana あ derives from cursive...
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from man'yōgana, Chinese characters used for their pronunciations, a practice that started in the 5th century. The oldest examples of Man'yōgana include...
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kanji List of kanji by stroke count Kana Hiragana Katakana Hentaigana Man'yōgana Sōgana Gojūon Typographic symbols Japanese punctuation Iteration mark...
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regard to the underlying meaning of the characters. This is similar to man'yōgana in Old Japanese. Conversely, ateji also refers to kanji used semantically...
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kanji List of kanji by stroke count Kana Hiragana Katakana Hentaigana Man'yōgana Sōgana Gojūon Typographic symbols Japanese punctuation Iteration mark...
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kanji List of kanji by stroke count Kana Hiragana Katakana Hentaigana Man'yōgana Sōgana Gojūon Typographic symbols Japanese punctuation Iteration mark...
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colloquial readings Kanbun Idu Variants Zetian characters Derived systems Kana man'yōgana hiragana katakana Jurchen script Khitan large small Nüshu Bopomofo Slavonic...
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kanji List of kanji by stroke count Kana Hiragana Katakana Hentaigana Man'yōgana Sōgana Gojūon Typographic symbols Japanese punctuation Iteration mark...
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other Japanese syllabary besides hiragana and katakana is their precursor man'yōgana, use of which had died out well before 1712. Imatto-canna was probably...
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(although primarily based on moras rather than syllables) Hiragana Katakana Man'yōgana Kikakui – Mende Kpelle – Kpelle Linear B – Mycenean Greek Lisu Bamboo...
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handakuten (ngo) hiragana origin 己 katakana origin 己 Man'yōgana 古 姑 枯 故 侯 孤 児 粉 己 巨 去 居 忌 許 虚 興 木 Voiced Man'yōgana 吾 呉 胡 娯 後 籠 児 悟 誤 其 期 碁 語 御 馭 凝 spelling kana...
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alphabets: Arabic alphabet, Cyrillic script Letterforms in calligraphy: Man'yōgana, Hentaigana Letterforms in history: Long s, R rotunda Letterforms in technology:...
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transcribe the sounds of Japanese syllables. An early system of this type was man'yōgana, as used in the 8th-century anthology Man'yōshū. This system was not quite...
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the fifth row (お段, "row O"). Both represent [o]. お and オ originate, via man'yōgana, from the kanji 於. Scaled-down versions of the kana (ぉ, ォ) are used to...
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with Western influences.[citation needed] Both う and ウ originate, via man'yōgana, from the kanji 宇 (pronounced u and meaning space). Scaled-down versions...
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