平仮名

Japanese

Kanji in this term
平	仮	名
ひら Grade: 3	か > が Grade: 5	な Grade: 1
kun’yomi	Irregular

Etymology

Compound of 平 (hira, “flat, smooth”) +‎ 仮名 (kana), which voices to -gana due to suffixation.

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) ひらがな [hìrágáꜜnà] (Nakadaka – [3])[1][2][3]
(Tokyo) ひらがな [hìrágáná] (Heiban – [0])[1]
(Tokyo) ひらがな [hìrágánáꜜ] (Odaka – [0])[1]
IPA^(key): [çiɾa̠ɡa̠na̠]

Noun

平仮名 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 平假名, hiragana ひらがな, rōmaji hiragana)

hiragana, a Japanese syllabary script
- 1603–1604, Nippo Jisho (page 242)
  Firagana. ヒラガナ (平仮名) 日本の文字の一種.
(as opposed to complex kanji) simple (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

Synonyms

(now rare) 女 (おんな)手 (で) (onnade), 女 (おんな)文 (も)字 (じ) (onnamoji), 草 (そう)仮 (が)名 (な) (sōgana)

See also

References

1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Doi, Tadao (1603–1604) Hōyaku Nippo Jisho (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 1980, →ISBN.

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