仮名

Japanese

kanjitab
Definitions
  • a category of Japanese syllabary scripts: kana
  • a syllabogram, an individual character belonging to one of the syllabaries: kana
  • a temporary name, an alias

Etymology

Compound from Japanese 仮 (temporary, borrowing, fake, provisional thing, borrowed) + Japanese 借る karu, “to borrow”, the cog + Japanese ojp (god, spirit, sticker-through, region, side, essence, force, girl, under, phonetic character, direction, gods, yellow, beneath, ground, bottom, female)+ Japanese - form of modern m + Japanese 借りる kariru + Japanese 字 (character, letter, written character).

Origin

Japanese

字

Gloss

character, letter, written character

Concept
Semantic Field

Speech and language

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

Kanji

字

Emoji

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