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Man'yōgana (万葉仮名, Japanese pronunciation: [maɰ̃joꜜːɡana] or [maɰ̃joːɡana]) is an ancient writing system that uses Chinese characters to represent the Japanese language. It was the first known kana system to be developed as a means to represent the Japanese language phonetically.
Man'yōgana ( 万葉仮名 ), also known as shakuji ( 借字 ), is an obsolete form of kana in which kanji were used for their sounds rather than their meanings. It is the oldest native Japanese writing system, dating to circa 759. In this system, kanji were used for their pronunciation as well as meaning.
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Man'yōgana chart. Development. See also. Bibliography. Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai (上代特殊仮名遣, lit. Special kana orthography of the early era) is an archaic kana orthography system used to write Old Japanese during the Nara period. Its primary feature is to distinguish between two groups of syllables that later merged.
katakana. In katakana. One such adaptation was man’yōgana, a phonetic syllabary that came into use in the 8th century. This system used Chinese characters whose Chinese pronunciation sounded similar to Japanese syllables, rather than using the ideas that the characters represented.
An ancient form of Japanese kana which uses Chinese characters to represent Japanese sounds. Their earliest attestation is not clear, but they seem to have been in use since at least the sixth century. The name man'yōgana is from the Man'yōshū (Anthology of Myriad Leaves), a Japanese poetry anthology from the Nara period written in man'yōgana.
Japanese writing. Learn about this topic in these articles: Japanese language writing development. In Japanese art: Calligraphy and painting. …of Chinese characters, known as man’yōgana, were employed to represent Japanese phonetic sounds, and two even more abbreviated phonetic writing systems, hiragana and katakana, were known in nascent form.
