hentaigana

hentaigana

English

Etymology

From Japanese 変体仮名 (hentaigana).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑːnə

Noun

hentaigana (plural hentaigana)

1. Obsolete, now-non-standard hiragana.
   • 1985, Earl Miner, Hiroko Odagiri,; Robert E. Morrell, The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature, Princeton University Press,, →ISBN, page 281:

     Modern hiragana is a descendant of various earlier versions now usually called hentaigana.

Related terms

• hiragana
• katakana
• man'yōgana

Translations

(Japanese) a variant form of a hiragana or katakana character

Chinese: Mandarin: 變體假名／变体假名 (zh) (biàntǐ jiǎmíng) Japanese: 変体仮名 (ja) (へんたいがな, hentaigana) Korean: 헨타이가나 (hentaigana) Russian: хэнта́йга́на f (xɛntájgána)

See also

• hentaigana on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Japanese

Romanization

hentaigana

1. Rōmaji transcription of へんたいがな