万葉仮名
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Japanese[edit]
| Kanji in this term | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 万 | 葉 | 仮 | 名 |
| まん Grade: 2 |
よう Grade: 3 |
か > が Grade: 5 |
な Grade: 1 |
| kan’yōon | on’yomi | kun’yomi | |
| Alternative spelling |
|---|
| 萬葉假名 (kyūjitai) |
Etymology[edit]
Compound of 万葉 (man'yō, “ten thousand leaves”, from the title of the Old Japanese poetry anthology, Man'yōshū, “Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves”) + 仮名 (kana, “phonetic character”, literally “borrowed characters” or “borrowed names”, from the way the characters were borrowed for their phonetic values).[1][2] The kana changes to gana as an instance of rendaku (連濁).
This kind of phonetic re-use of Chinese characters was broadly popularized by the Man'yōshū. Chinese used phonetically to spell Japanese occurs even earlier in the historical record, such as on the Inariyama Sword, dated to 471 or 531.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Tokyo) まんよーがな [màń'yóógáná] (Heiban – [0])[3][2][4]
- (Tokyo) まんよーがな [màń'yóꜜògànà] (Nakadaka – [3])[3][2][4]
- IPA(key): [mã̠ɰ̃jo̞ːɡa̠na̠]
Noun[edit]
万葉仮名 • (man'yōgana) ←まんえふがな (man'efugana)?
- Man'yōgana, the early Japanese syllabary using Chinese characters to represent Japanese sounds: the predecessor of hiragana and katakana
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
Categories:
- Japanese terms spelled with 万 read as まん
- Japanese terms spelled with 葉 read as よう
- Japanese terms spelled with 仮 read as か
- Japanese terms spelled with 名 read as な
- Japanese terms with rendaku
- Japanese compound terms
- Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese nouns
- Japanese terms spelled with second grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with third grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with fifth grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with first grade kanji
- Japanese terms written with four Han script characters
- ja:Writing systems