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
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Taira English
- кана Russian
- хирагана Russian
- Taira Spanish, Castilian
- Taira Portuguese
- - 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
- 変体仮名 Japanese
- 字 Japanese
- 平 Japanese
- 平ちゃら Japanese
- 平安 Japanese
- 平良 Japanese
- 振り仮名 Japanese
- 掌 Japanese
- 波平 Japanese
- 片仮名 Japanese
- 送り仮名 Japanese
- ฮิระงะนะ Thai
- 히라가나 Korean