hiragana

Speech parts

1. hiragana - Noun

2. Hiragana - Proper noun

Meaning

(uncountable) The main syllabary for the Japanese language, used to represent native Japanese words, including particles, and when kanji is used, to represent verb and adjective endings.

A letter of this syllabary.

Hiragana

Alternative spelling of hiragana

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Adding to the confusion, the labels are written in Kanji, Hiragana, or Katakana. Source: Internet

Both katakana and hiragana usually spell native long vowels with the addition of a second vowel kana, but katakana uses a vowel extender mark, called a chōonpu ("long vowel mark"), in foreign loanwords. Source: Internet

By contrast, readings for individual characters are conventionally written in katakana for on readings, and hiragana for kun readings. Source: Internet

Each Japanese syllabic alphabet (hiragana or katakana, see Kana ) would fit, but like several other alphabets of the world they aren't encoded in the ISO/IEC 8859 system. Source: Internet

Examples Here is an example of Japanese ruby characters (called furigana ) for Tokyo (" 東京 main"): Most furigana (Japanese ruby characters) are written with the hiragana syllabary, but katakana and romaji are also occasionally used. Source: Internet

For compound words where the dakuten reflects rendaku voicing, the original hiragana is used. Source: Internet

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