hentaigana
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Japanese 変体仮名 (hentaigana).
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɑːnə
Noun[edit]
hentaigana (plural hentaigana)
- A character belonging to 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[edit]
Translations[edit]
(Japanese) a variant form of a hiragana or katakana character
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See also[edit]
- hentaigana on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Japanese[edit]
Romanization[edit]
hentaigana
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