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
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- man'yōgana English
- кана Russian
- - form of modern m Japanese
- - poetry anthology, w:Man'yōshū Japanese
- Man'yōshū, “Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves” Japanese
- ojp Japanese
- こなた Japanese
- 万葉 Japanese
- 乙女 Japanese
- 五十嵐 Japanese
- 仮 Japanese
- 仮名 Japanese
- 仮名文 Japanese
- 借りる kariru Japanese
- 借る karu, “to borrow”, the cog Japanese
- 参る Japanese
- 召し上がる Japanese
- 合略仮名 Japanese
- 変体仮名 Japanese
- 大山祇 Japanese
- 大山積命 Japanese
- 大山積神 Japanese
- 天が下 Japanese
- 天津麻羅 Japanese
- 如何 Japanese
- 字 Japanese
- 寝床 Japanese
- 平仮名 Japanese
- 振り仮名 Japanese
- 日向 Japanese
- 海原 Japanese
- 源 Japanese
- 片仮名 Japanese
- 神戸 Japanese
- 簪 Japanese
- 紅葉たす Japanese
- 職場 Japanese
- 自ら Japanese
- 迦具土 Japanese
- 送り仮名 Japanese
- 鶏 Japanese