Kana

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History

Glossing Sutras Gugyeol Buddhist priest Kūkai

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Hiragana and katakana

Edo period Ebisu Yebisu Accusative Particle

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Modern usage

Okurigana Onomatopoeia Sino-Japanese Furigana Wabun code

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Overview

Syllabaries Spoken Japanese Moraic Hiragana Katakana

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Direction: Vertical right-to-left, left-to-right
Languages: Japanese, Ryukyuan languages, Ainu
Parent systems: Seal scriptClerical scriptRegular script (Chinese characters)KanjiKana · Clerical scriptRegular script (Chinese characters)KanjiKana · Regular script (Chinese characters)KanjiKana · KanjiKana · Kana
Period: c. 800 – present
Region: Japan
Script type: Syllabary

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Overview

Syllabaries Syllabary
Spoken Japanese Japanese phonology
Moraic Mora (linguistics)
Hiragana
Katakana
Kanji
Japanese Japanese language
Man'yōgana
Hentaigana
Ainu Ainu language
Number of systems Okinawan scripts
Ryūkyūan languages
Okinawan Okinawan language
Taiwanese kana
Taiwanese Hokkien
Ruby text
Taiwan
Under Japanese rule Taiwan under Japanese rule
Kana character Syllabogram
Corresponds to a morpheme Logogram
Onset Syllable onset
Nucleus Syllable nucleus
Nasal Nasal consonant
Codas Syllable coda
Glide Semivowel
Phonemes Phoneme

Etymology

History

Collation

Collation

Disadvantages

Hawaiian Hawaiian language
Rotokas Rotokas language

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Nodes103

Edges102

Triples160

Avg. degree1.98

Density0.019417

Components1

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Kana

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related to history · 25

Kana → As, Both, Buddhist, Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, Buddhist Siddhaṃ, China, Chinese, Heian, Hiragana, However, In, India, Japanese, Kakugen, Kana's, Keichū, Korean, Kūkai, Myōkaku, Old Japanese

related to Hiragana and katakana · 23

Kana → Ainu, Although, Archaic, As, Asterisks, Classical Japanese, Ebisu, Edo, European, For, Hiragana, If, It, Japanese, Katakana, Okinawan, Some, The, There, These

related to Terms · 19

Kana → Although, Chinese-derived, For, Hentaigana, Hiragana, Iroha, Japanese, Katakana, Kungana, Magana, Man'yōgana/Mannyōgana, Man'yōshū, Mana, Ongana, Shinkatakana, Sōgana, Yamato, Yamato's, Yamatogana

related to Disadvantages · 15

Kana → Additionally, Both, Chinese, Donarudo Toranpu, English, For, Hawaiian, In Kana, Instead, Japanese, President Donald Trump, Rotokas, Similarly, The, When

related to Diacritics · 11

Kana → English, HTML5, Japanese, JIS, JIS-encoded Hiragana, Note, Shift JIS, Syllables, Unicode, Usually, Windows

related to Digraphs · 10

Kana → Although, CyV, For, In, Japanese, Okinawan, Syllables, The, There, These

related to Modern usage · 9

Kana → Furigana, Hiragana, Japanese, Katakana, Literature, Sino-Japanese, The, Today, Usually

related to External links · 7

Kana → Hiragana, HiraganaOrigin, Katakana, KatakanaKana, PDF, RōmajiKana Copybook, Transliterate Kana

Parent systems · 5

Kana → Clerical scriptRegular script (Chinese characters)KanjiKana, Kana, KanjiKana, Regular script (Chinese characters)KanjiKana, Seal scriptClerical scriptRegular script (Chinese characters)KanjiKana

related to Etymology · 5

Kana → Chinese, In, It, Japanese, Sinocentric

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Important terminology

lit na hiragana katakana -ŋa kana' ɡa used japanese kanji man'yōgana characters magana syllabary also unicode order 'women's ye derived

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Subject	Predicate	Object	Confidence	Src
Kana	Direction	Vertical right-to-left, left-to-right	1.00	infobox
Kana	ISO 15924	.mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}Hrkt (412), Japanese syllabaries (alias for Hiragana + Katakana)	1.00	infobox
Kana	Languages	Japanese, Ryukyuan languages, Ainu	1.00	infobox
Kana	Parent systems	Seal scriptClerical scriptRegular script (Chinese characters)KanjiKana	1.00	infobox
Kana	Parent systems	Clerical scriptRegular script (Chinese characters)KanjiKana	1.00	infobox
Kana	Parent systems	Regular script (Chinese characters)KanjiKana	1.00	infobox
Kana	Parent systems	KanjiKana	1.00	infobox
Kana	Parent systems	Kana	1.00	infobox
Kana	Period	c. 800 – present	1.00	infobox
Kana	Region	Japan	1.00	infobox
Kana	Script type	Syllabary	1.00	infobox
Kana	Unicode alias	Katakana or Hiragana	1.00	infobox
Kana	Unicode range	U+3040–U+309F Hiragana	1.00	infobox
Kana	Unicode range	U+30A0–U+30FF Katakana	1.00	infobox

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