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What (who) is hiragana - definition

JAPANESE SYLLABARY
Onnade; Hiragna; ひらがな; 平仮名; Hirakana; Hirigana; ISO 15924:Hira; ISO 15924:Hiri; Hiragana/; Hiraganas; Hirogana; Table of hiragana; Firo-canna; Hira (script); Hiragana (script); Hiragana syllabary; Hiragana script
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  • Hiragana originated as simplified forms of similar-sounding Chinese characters
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  • cursive script]] (''sōsho''). Shown here is a sample of cursive script by 7th century calligrapher [[Sun Guoting]]. Note the character 為 (''wei''), indicated by the red arrow, closely resembles the hiragana character ゐ (''wi'').
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hiragana         
<Japanese> The cursive formed Japanese kana syllabary. Hiragana is mostly used for grammatical particles, verb-inflection, and Japanese words which are not written in kanji or which are too difficult for an educated person to read or write in kanji. Hiragana are also used for furigana. (2001-03-18)
hiragana         
[?h?r?'g?:n?, ?h??r?-]
¦ noun the more cursive form of syllabic writing used in Japanese, primarily used for function words and inflections.
Origin
Japanese, 'plain kana'.
Hiragana and katakana place names         
JAPANESE MUNICIPALITIES WHOSE NAMES ARE NOT WRITTEN IN KANJI
Hiragana city; Hiragana cities
The hiragana cities of Japan are municipalities whose names are written in hiragana rather than kanji as is traditional for Japanese place names. Many hiragana city names have kanji equivalents that are either phonetic manyōgana, or whose kanji are now obsolete.

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Hiragana

Hiragana (平仮名, ひらがな, IPA: [çiɾaɡaꜜna, çiɾaɡana(ꜜ)]) is a Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana as well as kanji.

It is a phonetic lettering system. The word hiragana literally means "flowing" or "simple" kana ("simple" originally as contrasted with kanji).

Hiragana and katakana are both kana systems. With few exceptions, each mora in the Japanese language is represented by one character (or one digraph) in each system. This may be either a vowel such as "a" (hiragana あ); a consonant followed by a vowel such as "ka" (か); or "n" (ん), a nasal sonorant which, depending on the context, sounds either like English m, n or ng ([ŋ]) when syllable-final or like the nasal vowels of French, Portuguese or Polish. Because the characters of the kana do not represent single consonants (except in the case of ん "n"), the kana are referred to as syllabic symbols and not alphabetic letters.

Hiragana is used to write okurigana (kana suffixes following a kanji root, for example to inflect verbs and adjectives), various grammatical and function words including particles, as well as miscellaneous other native words for which there are no kanji or whose kanji form is obscure or too formal for the writing purpose. Words that do have common kanji renditions may also sometimes be written instead in hiragana, according to an individual author's preference, for example to impart an informal feel. Hiragana is also used to write furigana, a reading aid that shows the pronunciation of kanji characters.

There are two main systems of ordering hiragana: the old-fashioned iroha ordering and the more prevalent gojūon ordering.

Examples of use of hiragana
1. There are three alphabets –– hiragana, katakana and kanji (which is almost identical to Chinese and has about 2,000 characters to memorize for basic literacy). To read the record jackets of his favorite enka singers, Jero taught himself the alphabets.