振り仮名

Japanese

kanjitab
Definitions
  • smaller kana printed next to (vertical) or above (horizontal) non-kana text as pronunciation guide

Etymology

Com from Japanese 振り (assigning, style, pretense) + Japanese 連用形 (meeting, house, counselor, store, gathering, building)+ Japanese continuative or stem form of verb m + Japanese 振る (put on airs of, wag)+ Japanese to assign, to stick on, to apportion + 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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