Kanazukai (仮(か)名(な)遣(づか)い, ‘kana usage’) are the orthographic rules for spelling Japanese in kana. All phonographic systems (of which kana is an example)...

historical kana orthography (歴史的仮名遣い, rekishiteki kanazukai), or old orthography (旧仮名遣い, kyū kanazukai), refers to the kana orthography (正仮名遣い, sei kana-zukai)...

gendai kanazukai) is the present official kanazukai (system of spelling the Japanese syllabary). Also known as new kana usage (新仮名遣い, shin kanazukai), it...

Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai (上代特殊仮名遣, lit. Special kana orthography of the early era) is an archaic kana orthography system used to write Old Japanese during...

pronunciation was rectified as part of a general orthographic reform, the Gendai Kanazukai, or modern kana orthography. Under the new orthographic rules, only the...

example, the word かなづかい, romanized kanadukai in Nihon-shiki, is pronounced kanazukai in modern standard Japanese and is romanized as such in Kunrei-shiki....

the word かなづかい, rendered kanadukai in Nihon-shiki, is pronounced as kanazukai in modern Japanese, and is romanized as such in Kunrei. The International...

Japan. Hashimoto is especially noted for the discovery of Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai, which makes it clear that Old Japanese made more syllabic distinctions...

はなぢ. Similarly, tsukau (使う/遣う; 'to use') is spelled つかう in hiragana, so kanazukai (仮名遣い; 'kana use', or 'kana orthography') is spelled かなづかい in hiragana...

represented by specific characters. That usage is known as Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai and usage has led historical linguists to conclude that certain disparate...

phonetic. See Old Japanese for further information. See Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai for information on subscript notation. Japanese uses separate systems...

relative, and its equivalents in Old Japanese. Note: See Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai for information on Old Japanese subscript notation. Both languages use...

previously stalled revisions could proceed. The major reforms were: gendai kanazukai (現代仮名遣い)—alignment of kana usage with modern pronunciation, replacing...

position. Although removed from the standard orthography with the gendai kanazukai reforms, wi and we still see stylistic use, as in ウヰスキー for whisky and...

November 1946, the newspaper adopted the modern kana usage system (shin kanazukai). On 30 November 1949, the Asahi Shimbun started to publish the serialized...

(710-794) Old Japanese (a, i, ï, u, e, ë, o, and ö, see Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai), which merged into the five modern vowels (a, i, u, e, and o). During...

the loss of certain spelling distinctions found in the Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai ("Ancient Special Kana Usage"), which distinguished two types of /i/,...

usage underwent official reform to reflect modern pronunciation as gendai kanazukai (現代かなづかい, modern kana usage). In addition, two kana, ゐ/ヰ wi and ゑ/ヱ we...

man'yōgana, an archaic orthography that may be used to express Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai. While it is an Early Middle Japanese text, it is early enough to still...

phonology, making important contribution to the studies of Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai and Middle Chinese. Works on-line Archived 2018-09-29 at the Wayback Machine...

with the exception of /to1, to2/, distinguishes between Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai. It contains a total of 162 Japanese words, many of which are the oldest...

text includes a number of passages utilizing the archaic Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai spellings. However, there are some inconsistencies which indicate that...

written in man'yōgana during the Nara period and found the Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai, proving that there were 88 sounds in the ancient language, but jindai...

kana-jo, 古今集仮名序 Kokinshū kana-jo, or simply 仮名序 kana-jo; rekishi-teki kanazukai: 假名序) is one of the two prefaces to the tenth-century Japanese waka anthology...

last Early Middle Japanese text to preserve any kind of Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai, where the distinction is only made between type A and type B ko. Bailey...

preserves a historical phonological distinction known as Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai that was soon lost afterwards. 8th century in poetry Rabinovitch, page...