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送り仮名

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Japanese

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Kanji in this term
送 仮 名
おく
Grade: 3
か > が
Grade: 5
な
Grade: 1
kun'yomi
Alternative spellings
送り假名 (kyūjitai)
送りがな
送仮名
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Etymology

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Compound of 送(おく)り (okuri, “sending”, 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 送(おく)る (okuru, “to send”), from the sense of sending something afterward or adding something on the end) + 仮名(かな) (kana, “kana”).[1][2][3] The kana changes to gana as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

First attested in 1477.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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送(おく)り仮(が)名(な) • (okurigana) 

  1. okurigana [from 1477]

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Shōgaku Tosho (1988), 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  4. ^ 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), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN