真仮名
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Japanese[edit]
| Kanji in this term | ||
|---|---|---|
| 真 | 仮 | 名 |
| ま Grade: 3 |
かり > が Grade: 5 |
な Grade: 1 |
| kun’yomi | irregular | kun’yomi |
| Alternative spelling |
|---|
| 眞假名 (kyūjitai) |
Etymology[edit]
真 (“true”) + 仮名. It is called "true", as opposed to hiragana and katakana which no longer retain the original shape of the Han characters (kanji) they derive from, even though it is still "false" as a type of 仮名 (kana, literally “false name”) because it is used phonetically. See also 真名 (mana, “non-phonetic kanji”, literally “true name”) and 真片仮名 (shinkatakana, “non-phonetic kanji and katakana”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
- (history) a syllabary with characters drawn from kanji, such as the 万葉仮名 (Man'yōgana), that is the precursor to hiragana and katakana
See also[edit]
Categories:
- Japanese terms spelled with 真 read as ま
- Japanese terms spelled with 仮
- Japanese terms spelled with 名 read as な
- Japanese terms with rendaku
- Japanese terms prefixed with 真
- Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese nouns
- 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 three Han script characters
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