What hiragana and katakana are collectively called. However, within Daryl's Library, I also include kanji in my usage of the term "kana." See the hiragana, katakana and kanji entries.
Japanese characters used to spell out words phonetically (i.e., based on sounds, like the English alphabet), as opposed to kanji. See also katakana, hiragana, furigana.
1/4ˆã‹ãªï1/4‰ The original Japanese writing system. The hiragana set and the katakana set altogether is called Kana.
The collective name for the two syllabic alphabets ( hiragana & katakana) used in writing Japanese.
phonetic Japanese characters
Japanese written characters.
japanese name which means "powerful".
A collective term for the Japanese subscripts Hiragana and Katakana.
Term used when referencing the Japanese logographic writing system. It is assumed that when the term kana is used, it is referencing any of the three writing systems: katakana, hiragana, and kanji.
Kana is a general term for the syllabic Japanese scripts hiragana (ã²ã‚‰ãŒãª) and katakana (カタカナ) as well as the old system known as manyogana. These were developed from the logographic characters of Chinese origin known in Japan as Kanji (; Chinese pronunciation "hà nzì"), as an alternative and adjunct to these latter.
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