century. The name "man'yōgana" derives from the Man'yōshū, a Japanese poetry anthology from the Nara period written with man'yōgana. Texts using the system...

educated). Man'yōgana (万葉仮名, kana used in the Man'yōshū): the most prominent system of magana. Sōgana (草仮名, sloppy kana): cursive man'yōgana. Hiragana...

full-fledged script for written Japanese existed until the development of man'yōgana (万葉仮名), which appropriated kanji for their phonetic value (derived from...

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...

purposes only. It represents an intermediate cursive form between historic man'yōgana script and modern hiragana. Sōgana appears primarily in Heian era texts...

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

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...

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

man'yōgana (万葉仮名), "alphabet of myriad leaves". The kana of modern Japanese, hiragana and katakana developed as organic simplifications of man'yōgana...

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...

main Japanese syllabic writing system, derived from a cursive form of man'yōgana, a system where Chinese ideograms (kanji) were used to write sounds without...

other language families have been proven. Old Japanese was written using man'yōgana, using Chinese characters as syllabograms or (occasionally) logograms...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

specialised scholarly works use え / 𛀀 (from the man'yōgana character 衣) to transcribe e and 𛀁 / エ (from man'yōgana 江, where エ is the modern Katakana e) to transcribe...

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 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...

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

Tōyō kanji Jinmeiyō kanji Hyōgai kanji Kana Hiragana Hentaigana Katakana Man'yōgana Sōgana Gojūon Typographic symbols Japanese punctuation Iteration mark...

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...

literally means "bear root/origin," or "origin of the bear." However, Man'yōgana-like phonetic transcriptions based on the kanji for "a ball, a sphere"...

and 𛀁 was merged with え and エ. Japanese people separated e and ye in Man'yōgana, early Hiragana and early Katakana. After that, e and ye merged into ye...

used Chinese characters to express the sounds of Japanese, known as man'yōgana. Before the Taihō Code was established, the capital was customarily moved...

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

Tōyō kanji Jinmeiyō kanji Hyōgai kanji Kana Hiragana Hentaigana Katakana Man'yōgana Sōgana Gojūon Typographic symbols Japanese punctuation Iteration mark...

that the writer wanted to write in order to write phonetically, much as man'yōgana (kanji used solely for phonetic use) was used to represent Japanese phonetically...