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Hiragana, the Glossary

is a Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana as well as kanji.^[1]

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Japanese writing system terms
Kana
Syllabary writing systems

Affricate

An affricate is a consonant that begins as a stop and releases as a fricative, generally with the same place of articulation (most often coronal).

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Bopomofo

Bopomofo, also called Zhuyin Fuhao, or simply Zhuyin, is a transliteration system for Standard Chinese and other Sinitic languages.

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The, also known as,,, or Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark by the Unicode Consortium, is a Japanese symbol that indicates a, or a long vowel of two morae in length. Hiragana and Chōonpu are Japanese writing system terms and kana.

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Chinese calligraphy

Chinese calligraphy is the writing of Chinese characters as an art form, combining purely visual art and interpretation of the literary meaning. This type of expression has been widely practiced in China and has been generally held in high esteem across East Asia. Calligraphy is considered one of the four most-sought skills and hobbies of ancient Chinese literati, along with playing stringed musical instruments, the board game "Go", and painting.

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Chinese language

Chinese is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in China.

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Clerical script

The clerical script, sometimes also chancery script, is a style of Chinese writing that evolved from the late Warring States period to the Qin dynasty.

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Close vowel

A close vowel, also known as a high vowel (in U.S. terminology), is any in a class of vowel sounds used in many spoken languages.

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Cursive script (East Asia)

Cursive script (cǎoshū;, sōshotai;, choseo), often referred to as grass script, is a script style used in Chinese and East Asian calligraphy.

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Dakuten and handakuten

The, colloquially, is a diacritic most often used in the Japanese kana syllabaries to indicate that the consonant of a syllable should be pronounced voiced, for instance, on sounds that have undergone rendaku (sequential voicing). Hiragana and Dakuten and handakuten are Japanese writing system terms and kana.

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Diacritic

A diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent) is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph.

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Early Middle Japanese

is a stage of the Japanese language between 794 and 1185, which is known as the Heian period.

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French language

French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Fricative

A fricative is a consonant produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together.

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Furigana

is a Japanese reading aid consisting of smaller kana (syllabic characters) printed either above or next to kanji (logographic characters) or other characters to indicate their pronunciation. Hiragana and Furigana are Japanese writing system, Japanese writing system terms and kana.

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Gemination

In phonetics and phonology, gemination (from Latin 'doubling', itself from gemini 'twins'), or consonant lengthening, is an articulation of a consonant for a longer period of time than that of a singleton consonant.

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Glottal stop

The glottal stop or glottal plosive is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages, produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract or, more precisely, the glottis.

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Gojūon

In the Japanese language, the is a traditional system ordering kana characters by their component phonemes, roughly analogous to alphabetical order. Hiragana and Gojūon are kana.

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Grammatical particle

In grammar, the term particle (abbreviated) has a traditional meaning, as a part of speech that cannot be inflected, and a modern meaning, as a function word (functor) associated with another word or phrase in order to impart meaning.

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Haruhiko Kindaichi

Haruhiko Kindaichi (金田一春彦, Kindaichi Haruhiko; April 3, 1913 – May 19, 2004) was a Japanese linguist and a scholar of Japanese linguistics (known as kokugogaku).

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Hentaigana

In the Japanese writing system, are variant forms of hiragana. Hiragana and Hentaigana are Japanese writing system and kana.

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Hepburn romanization

is the main system of romanization for the Japanese language. Hiragana and Hepburn romanization are Japanese writing system.

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Historical kana orthography

The, or, refers to the in general use until orthographic reforms after World War II; the current orthography was adopted by Cabinet order in 1946. Hiragana and Historical kana orthography are kana.

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Hunan

Hunan is an inland province of China.

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Inariyama Sword

The iron or was excavated in 1968 at the Inariyama Kofun, a megalithic tomb located in Saitama Prefecture.

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International Phonetic Alphabet

The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script.

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Iroha

The is a Japanese poem. Hiragana and Iroha are Japanese writing system.

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Iteration mark

Iteration marks are characters or punctuation marks that represent a duplicated character or word. Hiragana and Iteration mark are kana.

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Japanese calligraphy

, also called, is a form of calligraphy, or artistic writing, of the Japanese language. Hiragana and Japanese calligraphy are Japanese writing system.

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Japanese language

is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people.

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Japanese particles

Japanese particles, or, are suffixes or short words in Japanese grammar that immediately follow the modified noun, verb, adjective, or sentence.

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Japanese phonology

Japanese phonology is the system of sounds used in the pronunciation of the Japanese language.

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Japanese pitch accent

is a feature of the Japanese language that distinguishes words by accenting particular morae in most Japanese dialects.

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Japanese writing system

The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana.

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Junichiro Koizumi

Junichiro Koizumi (小泉純一郎, Koizumi Jun'ichirō; born 8 January 1942) is a Japanese retired politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) from 2001 to 2006.

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Kana

are syllabaries used to write Japanese phonological units, morae. Hiragana and Kana are Japanese writing system, Japanese writing system terms and syllabary writing systems.

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Kana ligature

In the Japanese writing system are ligatures in the kana writing system, both hiragana and katakana. Hiragana and kana ligature are kana.

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Kanji

are the logographic Chinese characters adapted from the Chinese script used in the writing of Japanese. Hiragana and Kanji are Japanese writing system and Japanese writing system terms.

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Katakana

is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji). Hiragana and Katakana are Japanese writing system, Japanese writing system terms and kana.

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Kenkyūsha

The is a publishing house with headquarters in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan.

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Koto (kana)

Koto (hiragana:, katakana: ヿ) is one of the Japanese kana.

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Kunrei-shiki romanization

, also known as the Monbusho system (named after the endonym for the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) or MEXT system, is the Cabinet-ordered romanization system for transcribing the Japanese language into the Latin alphabet. Hiragana and Kunrei-shiki romanization are Japanese writing system.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States.

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List of Japanese typographic symbols

This article lists Japanese typographic symbols that are not included in kana or kanji groupings. Hiragana and list of Japanese typographic symbols are Japanese writing system.

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Loanword

A loanword (also a loan word, loan-word) is a word at least partly assimilated from one language (the donor language) into another language (the recipient or target language), through the process of borrowing.

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Man'yōgana

is an ancient writing system that uses Chinese characters to represent the Japanese language. Hiragana and Man'yōgana are Japanese writing system and kana.

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Meiji era

The was an era of Japanese history that extended from October 23, 1868, to July 30, 1912.

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Minimal pair

In phonology, minimal pairs are pairs of words or phrases in a particular language, spoken or signed, that differ in only one phonological element, such as a phoneme, toneme or chroneme, and have distinct meanings.

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Modern kana usage

is the present official kanazukai (system of spelling the Japanese syllabary). Hiragana and Modern kana usage are kana.

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Mora (linguistics)

A mora (plural morae or moras; often symbolized μ) is a basic timing unit in the phonology of some spoken languages, equal to or shorter than a syllable.

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Muromachi period

The, also known as the, is a division of Japanese history running from approximately 1336 to 1573.

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Nasal consonant

In phonetics, a nasal, also called a nasal occlusive or nasal stop in contrast with an oral stop or nasalized consonant, is an occlusive consonant produced with a lowered velum, allowing air to escape freely through the nose.

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Nasal vowel

A nasal vowel is a vowel that is produced with a lowering of the soft palate (or velum) so that the air flow escapes through the nose and the mouth simultaneously, as in the French vowel /ɑ̃/ or Amoy.

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Nüshu

Nüshu is a syllabic script derived from Chinese characters that was used exclusively among ethnic Yao women in Jiangyong County in Hunan province of southern China before going extinct in the early 21st century. Hiragana and Nüshu are syllabary writing systems.

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Nihon Kokugo Daijiten

The, often abbreviated as the and sometimes known in English as Shogakukan's Japanese Dictionary, is the largest Japanese language dictionary published.

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Nihon-shiki romanization

Nihon-shiki (lit, romanized as Nihonsiki in the system itself) is a romanization system for transliterating the Japanese language into the Latin alphabet. Hiragana and Nihon-shiki romanization are Japanese writing system.

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Obstruent

An obstruent is a speech sound such as,, or that is formed by obstructing airflow.

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Okinawan language

The Okinawan language (沖縄口, ウチナーグチ) or Central Okinawan is a Northern Ryukyuan language spoken primarily in the southern half of the island of Okinawa, as well as in the surrounding islands of Kerama, Kumejima, Tonaki, Aguni and a number of smaller peripheral islands.

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Okurigana

are kana suffixes following kanji stems in Japanese written words. Hiragana and Okurigana are Japanese writing system and kana.

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Oracle bone script

Oracle bone script is the oldest attested form of written Chinese, dating to the late 2nd millennium BC.

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Palatalization (phonetics)

In phonetics, palatalization or palatization is a way of pronouncing a consonant in which part of the tongue is moved close to the hard palate.

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Pangram

A pangram or holoalphabetic sentence is a sentence using every letter of a given alphabet at least once.

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Phonemic orthography

A phonemic orthography is an orthography (system for writing a language) in which the graphemes (written symbols) correspond consistently to the language's phonemes (the smallest units of speech that can differentiate words).

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Polish language

Polish (język polski,, polszczyzna or simply polski) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic group within the Indo-European language family written in the Latin script.

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Portuguese language

Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.

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Pronunciation

Pronunciation is the way in which a word or a language is spoken.

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Ramen

is a Japanese noodle dish.

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Regular script

The regular script is the newest of the major Chinese script styles, emerging during the Three Kingdoms period, and stylistically mature by the 7th century.

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Rendaku

is a phenomenon in Japanese morphophonology that governs the voicing of the initial consonant of a non-initial portion of a compound or prefixed word. Hiragana and Rendaku are Japanese writing system terms.

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Ryukyuan languages

The, also Lewchewan or Luchuan, are the indigenous languages of the Ryukyu Islands, the southernmost part of the Japanese archipelago.

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Seal script

Seal script or sigillary script is a style of writing Chinese characters that was common throughout the latter half of the 1st millennium BC.

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Shiritori

Shiritori (しりとり; 尻取り) is a Japanese word game in which the players are required to say a word which begins with the final kana of the previous word.

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Sokuon

The is a Japanese symbol in the form of a small hiragana or katakana. Hiragana and Sokuon are Japanese writing system terms and kana.

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Sonorant

In phonetics and phonology, a sonorant or resonant is a speech sound that is produced with continuous, non-turbulent airflow in the vocal tract; these are the manners of articulation that are most often voiced in the world's languages.

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Stroke order

Stroke order is the order in which the strokes of a Chinese character are written. Hiragana and stroke order are Japanese writing system.

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Syllabary

In the linguistic study of written languages, a syllabary is a set of written symbols that represent the syllables or (more frequently) moras which make up words. Hiragana and syllabary are syllabary writing systems.

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The Tale of Genji

, also known as Genji Monogatari is a classic work of Japanese literature written by the noblewoman, poet, and lady-in-waiting Murasaki Shikibu around the peak of the Heian period, in the early 11th century.

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Transliteration

Transliteration is a type of conversion of a text from one script to another that involves swapping letters (thus trans- + liter-) in predictable ways, such as Greek →, Cyrillic →, Greek → the digraph, Armenian → or Latin →.

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U (kana)

U (hiragana: う, katakana: ウ) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora.

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Unicode

Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard, is a text encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized.

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Voiced velar fricative

The voiced velar fricative is a type of consonantal sound that is used in various spoken languages.

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Voiced velar nasal

The voiced velar nasal, also known as eng, engma, or agma (from Greek ἆγμα 'fragment'), is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages.

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Vowel length

In linguistics, vowel length is the perceived length of a vowel sound: the corresponding physical measurement is duration.

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Wāpuro rōmaji

, or kana spelling, is a style of romanization of Japanese originally devised for entering Japanese into while using a Western QWERTY keyboard. Hiragana and Wāpuro rōmaji are Japanese writing system.

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Yōon

The, also written as yōon, is a feature of the Japanese language in which a mora is formed with an added sound, i.e., palatalized, or (more rarely in the modern language) with an added sound, i.e. labialized. Hiragana and yōon are Japanese writing system terms and kana.

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Yori (kana)

Yori (hiragana: ゟ, katakana) is one of the Japanese kana.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiragana

Also known as Firo-canna, Hira (script), Hiragana (script), Hiragana script, Hiragana syllabary, Hiragana/, Hiraganas, Hiragna, Hirakana, Hirigana, Hirogana, ISO 15924:Hira, ISO 15924:Hiri, Onnade, Table of hiragana, .

, Nasal consonant, Nasal vowel, Nüshu, Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, Nihon-shiki romanization, Obstruent, Okinawan language, Okurigana, Oracle bone script, Palatalization (phonetics), Pangram, Phonemic orthography, Polish language, Portuguese language, Pronunciation, Ramen, Regular script, Rendaku, Ryukyuan languages, Seal script, Shiritori, Sokuon, Sonorant, Stroke order, Syllabary, The Tale of Genji, Transliteration, U (kana), Unicode, Voiced velar fricative, Voiced velar nasal, Vowel length, Wāpuro rōmaji, Yōon, Yori (kana).

Hiragana, the Glossary

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See also

Japanese writing system terms

Kana

Syllabary writing systems

References