変体仮名

Japanese

kanjitab

Definitions

hentaigana: obsolete, now-non-standard hiragana

Etymology

Compound from Japanese 変体 (variant form) + 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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Cognates and derived terms

кана Russian
- form of modern m Japanese
ojp Japanese
万葉仮名 Japanese
仮 Japanese
仮名 Japanese
仮名文 Japanese
借りる kariru Japanese
借る karu, “to borrow”, the cog Japanese
合略仮名 Japanese
変体 Japanese
字 Japanese
平仮名 Japanese
振り仮名 Japanese
片仮名 Japanese
送り仮名 Japanese