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[edit] Translingual

The Hiragana script
Additional symbols
Unicode: U+3055Katakana: Hepburn romanization: saNihon-shiki romanization: saPolivanov cyrillization: саJapanese braille:

[edit] Syllable

  1. The hiragana syllable at さ行あ段 (row SA, section A) in a gojūon table.

Stroke order
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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Etymology 1

Cognate with shi (id).

[edit] Pronoun

(romaji sa)

  1. third person personal pronoun; they
    翁言ふやう、「御迎へに來む人をば、長き爪して、眼をつかみ潰さん。 が髪をとりて、かなぐり落とさむ。が尻をかき出でて、ここらの公人に見せて、恥を見せん」と腹立ちをる。

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[edit] Etymology 2

Derived in the Heian period from writing the man'yōgana kanji in the cursive sōsho style.

[edit] Hiragana character

(romaji sa)

  1. The /sa/ syllable.
  2. The eleventh character in the gojūon ordering of hiragana. The previous character is and the next character is . The equivalent katakana character is .
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[edit] Etymology 3

[edit] Suffix

(romaji sa)

  1. -ness

[edit] Etymology 4

[edit] Kanji reading

(romaji sa)

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