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Okurigana, the Glossary

are kana suffixes following kanji stems in Japanese written words.^[1]

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Adjective

An adjective (abbreviated adj.) is a word that describes or defines a noun or noun phrase.

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Affix

In linguistics, an affix is a morpheme that is attached to a word stem to form a new word or word form.

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Agatsuma Line

The is a local rail line in Gunma, Japan, and is part of the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) network.

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Alexandria

Alexandria (الإسكندرية; Ἀλεξάνδρεια, Coptic: Ⲣⲁⲕⲟϯ - Rakoti or ⲁⲗⲉⲝⲁⲛⲇⲣⲓⲁ) is the second largest city in Egypt and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast.

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Amagasaki

Amagasaki Castle Aerial view of Amagasaki city center Amagasaki Station is an industrial city located in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan.

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Ateji

In modern Japanese, principally refers to kanji used to phonetically represent native or borrowed words with less regard to the underlying meaning of the characters.

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Cardinal number

In mathematics, a cardinal number, or cardinal for short, is what is commonly called the number of elements of a set.

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Chi (letter)

Chi (uppercase Χ, lowercase χ; χῖ) is the twenty-second letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Chinese character classification

Chinese characters are generally logographs, but can be further categorized based on the manner of their creation or derivation.

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Compound verb

In linguistics, a compound verb or complex predicate is a multi-word compound that functions as a single verb.

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Denominal verb

In grammar, denominal verbs are verbs derived from nouns.

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Deverbal noun

Deverbal nouns are nouns that are derived from verbs or verb phrases.

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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. Okurigana and Furigana are Japanese writing system and kana.

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Gerund

In linguistics, a gerund (abbreviated ger) is any of various nonfinite verb forms in various languages; most often, but not exclusively, it is one that functions as a noun.

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Grammatical aspect

In linguistics, aspect is a grammatical category that expresses how a verbal action, event, or state, extends over time.

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Greek language

Greek (Elliniká,; Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.

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Gugyeol

Gugyeol, or kwukyel, is a system for rendering texts written in Classical Chinese into understandable Korean.

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Hiragana

is a Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana as well as kanji. Okurigana and Hiragana are Japanese writing system and kana.

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Honorific speech in Japanese

The Japanese language has a system of honorific speech, referred to as, parts of speech that show respect.

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Hyōgai kanji

, also known as, is a term for Japanese kanji outside the two major lists of jōyō kanji, which are taught in primary and secondary school, and the jinmeiyō kanji, which are additional kanji that are officially allowed for use in personal names.

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Imperfective aspect

The imperfective (abbreviated or more ambiguously) is a grammatical aspect used to describe ongoing, habitual, repeated, or similar semantic roles, whether that situation occurs in the past, present, or future.

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Inflection

In linguistic morphology, inflection (less commonly, inflexion) is a process of word formation in which a word is modified to express different grammatical categories such as tense, case, voice, aspect, person, number, gender, mood, animacy, and definiteness.

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Intransitive verb

In grammar, an intransitive verb is a verb, aside from an auxiliary verb, whose context does not entail a transitive object.

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Iteration mark

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

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Japanese adjectives

This article deals with Japanese equivalents of English adjectives.

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Japanese conjugation

Japanese verbs, like the verbs of many other languages, can be morphologically modified to change their meaning or grammatical function – a process known as conjugation.

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Japanese honorifics

The Japanese language makes use of a system of honorific speech, called, which includes honorific suffixes and prefixes when referring to others in a conversation.

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Japanese language

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

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Jōyō kanji

The are those kanji listed on the, officially announced by the Japanese Ministry of Education. Okurigana and Jōyō kanji are Japanese writing system.

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Kana

are syllabaries used to write Japanese phonological units, morae. Okurigana and Kana are Japanese writing system.

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Kanji

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

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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). Okurigana and Katakana are Japanese writing system and kana.

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Kun'yomi

, is a reading based on the pronunciation of a native Japanese word, or yamato kotoba, that closely approximated the meaning of the corresponding Chinese character when it was introduced.

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Lemma (morphology)

In morphology and lexicography, a lemma (lemmas or lemmata) is the canonical form, dictionary form, or citation form of a set of word forms.

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Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

The is one of the eleven ministries of Japan that composes part of the executive branch of the government of Japan.

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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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Morpheme

A morpheme is the smallest meaningful constituent of a linguistic expression.

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Old Japanese

is the oldest attested stage of the Japanese language, recorded in documents from the Nara period (8th century).

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On'yomi

, or the Sino-Japanese reading, is the reading of a kanji based on the historical Chinese pronunciation of the character.

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Ordinal number

In set theory, an ordinal number, or ordinal, is a generalization of ordinal numerals (first, second, th, etc.) aimed to extend enumeration to infinite sets.

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Orthography

An orthography is a set of conventions for writing a language, including norms of spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, word boundaries, emphasis, and punctuation.

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Participle

In linguistics, a participle (abbr.) is a nonfinite verb form that has some of the characteristics and functions of both verbs and adjectives.

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Perfective aspect

The perfective aspect (abbreviated), sometimes called the aoristic aspect, is a grammatical aspect that describes an action viewed as a simple whole, i.e., a unit without interior composition.

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Phonetic complement

A phonetic complement is a phonetic symbol used to disambiguate word characters (logograms) that have multiple readings, in mixed logographic-phonetic scripts such as Egyptian hieroglyphs, Akkadian cuneiform, Japanese, and Mayan.

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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.

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Sen no Rikyū

, also known simply as Rikyū, is considered the historical figure with the most profound influence on ''chanoyu,'' the Japanese "Way of Tea", particularly the tradition of wabi-cha.

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Shōwa era

The was the period of Japanese history corresponding to the reign of Emperor Shōwa (commonly known in English as Emperor Hirohito) from December 25, 1926, until his death on January 7, 1989.

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Sino-Japanese vocabulary

Sino-Japanese vocabulary, also known as, is a subset of Japanese vocabulary that originated in Chinese or was created from elements borrowed from Chinese.

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Tōyō kanji

The are those kanji listed on the, which was released by the Japanese on 16 November 1946, following a reform of kanji characters of Chinese origin in the Japanese language.

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Transitive verb

A transitive verb is a verb that entails one or more transitive objects, for example, 'enjoys' in Amadeus enjoys music.

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Verb

A verb is a word (part of speech) that in syntax generally conveys an action (bring, read, walk, run, learn), an occurrence (happen, become), or a state of being (be, exist, stand).

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Verbal noun

Historically, grammarians have described a verbal noun or gerundial noun as a verb form that functions as a noun.

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Yamanote Line

The Yamanote Line (Yamanote-sen) is a loop service in Tokyo, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

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References

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

, Verb, Verbal noun, Yamanote Line.

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