万葉仮名

Japanese

kanjitab
Definitions
  • man'yōMan'yōgana, the early Japanese syllabary using Chinese characters to represent Japanese sounds: the predecessor of hiragana and katakana

Etymology

Compound from Japanese 万葉 (ten thousand myriad leaf, ten thousand leaves) + Japanese ojp (god, spirit, sticker-through, region, side, essence, force, girl, under, phonetic character, direction, gods, yellow, beneath, ground, bottom, female)+ Japanese - poetry anthology, w:Man'yōshū + Japanese Man'yōshū, “Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves” + Japanese 仮名 (kana, the hiragana katakana syllabaries, Japanese phonetic syllabary characters, syllabic letter, a syllabary character).

Origin

Japanese

仮名

Gloss

kana, the hiragana katakana syllabaries, Japanese phonetic syllabary characters, syllabic letter, a syllabary character

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