平仮名

Japanese

kanjitab
Definitions
  • hiragana, a Japanese syllabary script
  • (as opposed to complex kanji) simple

Etymology

Compound from Japanese 平 (flat, something flat flattened, plainnoun, even, smooth, something flat, steady) + 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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