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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 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.
The modern kana, namely hiragana and katakana, are simplifications and systemizations of man'yōgana. Due to the large number of words and concepts entering Japan from China which had no native equivalent, many words entered Japanese directly, with a similar pronunciation to the original Chinese .
It was first recorded in Man'yōgana ( 万葉仮名 ), literally "ten thousand leaves borrowed labels", in reference to the Man'yōshū poetry anthology and the "borrowing" of the kanji characters as "labels" for the sounds of Japanese. Certain Chinese characters were borrowed to phonetically spell out Japanese sounds.
Manyōgana (万葉仮名, Man'yōgana) adalah salah satu jenis aksara kana yang menggunakan aksara Tionghoa untuk melambangkan bunyi bahasa Jepang, sementara sebagian besar arti yang dikandung aksara tersebut diabaikan. Manyōgana dipakai menulis di Jepang dari zaman Asuka hingga zaman Nara (akhir abad ke-6 hingga awal abad ke-8).
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.
man’yōgana. linguistics. Learn about this topic in these articles: hiragana. In 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.
