変体仮名
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Japanese[edit]
| Kanji in this term | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 変 | 体 | 仮 | 名 |
| へん Grade: 4 |
たい Grade: 2 |
か > が Grade: 5 |
な Grade: 1 |
| on’yomi | goon | irregular | kun’yomi |
| Alternative spelling |
|---|
| 變體假名 (kyūjitai) |
Etymology[edit]
Compound of 変体 (hentai, “variant form”) + 仮名 (kana, “the hiragana or katakana syllabaries; a syllabary character”). The kana changes to gana as an instance of rendaku (連濁).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Tokyo) へんたいがな [hèńtáígáná] (Heiban – [0])[1][2][3]
- (Tokyo) へんたいがな [hèńtáꜜìgànà] (Nakadaka – [3])[1][2]
- IPA(key): [hẽ̞nta̠iɡa̠na̠]
Noun[edit]
変体仮名 • (hentaigana)
- hentaigana: any of the hiragana made obsolete in Meiji-era reforms that enforced having one hiragana for each syllable
See also[edit]
- 万葉仮名 (man'yōgana): Man'yō characters, the ancestors of modern kana as derived from cursive forms of kanji used phonetically in the Man'yōshū collection of poetry
References[edit]
Categories:
- Japanese terms spelled with 変 read as へん
- Japanese terms spelled with 体 read as たい
- Japanese terms spelled with 仮
- 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 fourth grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with second 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