derivations in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An extensive list of man’yōgana arranged according to the characters, and not their readings Tomasz Majtczak:...

were Chinese characters used phonetically to transcribe Japanese (e.g. man'yōgana); and hentaigana, which are historical variants of the now-standard hiragana...

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...

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...

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...

700s into the Man'yōgana system, a rebus-like transcription that uses specific kanji to represent Japanese phonemes. For instance, man'yōgana spells the...

colloquial readings Kanbun Idu Variants Zetian characters Derived systems Kana man'yōgana hiragana katakana Jurchen script Khitan large small Nüshu Bopomofo Slavonic...

colloquial readings Kanbun Idu Variants Zetian characters Derived systems Kana man'yōgana hiragana katakana Jurchen script Khitan large small Nüshu Bopomofo Slavonic...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Japan, the early use of Chinese characters for Japanese grammar was in man'yōgana, which was replaced by kana, the Japanese syllabic script. Characters...

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...

from man'yōgana, Chinese characters used for their pronunciations, a practice that started in the 5th century. The oldest examples of Man'yōgana include...

kanji List of kanji by stroke count Kana Hiragana Katakana Hentaigana Man'yōgana Sōgana Gojūon Typographic symbols Japanese punctuation Iteration mark...

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...

kanji List of kanji by stroke count Kana Hiragana Katakana Hentaigana Man'yōgana Sōgana Gojūon Typographic symbols Japanese punctuation Iteration mark...

kanji List of kanji by stroke count Kana Hiragana Katakana Hentaigana Man'yōgana Sōgana Gojūon Typographic symbols Japanese punctuation Iteration mark...

colloquial readings Kanbun Idu Variants Zetian characters Derived systems Kana man'yōgana hiragana katakana Jurchen script Khitan large small Nüshu Bopomofo Slavonic...

kanji List of kanji by stroke count Kana Hiragana Katakana Hentaigana Man'yōgana Sōgana Gojūon Typographic symbols Japanese punctuation Iteration mark...

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...

(although primarily based on moras rather than syllables) Hiragana Katakana Man'yōgana Kikakui – Mende Kpelle – Kpelle Linear B – Mycenean Greek Lisu Bamboo...

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...

alphabets: Arabic alphabet, Cyrillic script Letterforms in calligraphy: Man'yōgana, Hentaigana Letterforms in history: Long s, R rotunda Letterforms in technology:...

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...

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...

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...