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e. 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. The date of the earliest usage of this type ...
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. The name man'yōgana comes from an ...
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Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai. 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. The existence and meaning of this system is a ...
Kana (仮名, Japanese pronunciation:) are syllabaries used to write Japanese phonological units, morae.Such syllabaries include (1) the original kana, or magana (真仮名, literally 'true kana'), which were Chinese characters used phonetically to transcribe Japanese, the most prominent magana system being man'yōgana (万葉仮名); the two descendants of man'yōgana, (2) hiragana (平 ...
Manyogana. Man'yōgana is the oldest known sound-based writing system used for the Japanese language. When kanji, or Chinese characters used to write Japanese, first came to Japan in around the 4th century AD through the Korean Peninsula, it was only used to write the Chinese language. [1] Even though Chinese was not native to the Japanese ...
Other articles where man’yōgana is discussed: hiragana: 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. In the 9th century man’yōgana was simplified, giving rise to the…
Man’yōgana ( jap. 万葉仮名) ist ein historisches Schriftsystem der japanischen Sprache, das chinesische Schriftzeichen ( Kanji) nicht ihrer semantischen (bedeutungstragenden) Qualitäten wegen verwendet, sondern aus phonetischen (lautlichen) Gründen. Sie ist damit eine Silbenschrift und Vorläufer der heute in Japan verwendeten Hiragana ...
