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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: 用 容 欲 夜 与 余 四 世 代 吉: spelling kana: 吉野のヨ Yoshino no "yo" unicode: U+3088, U+30E8: braille: Note: These Man'yōgana originally represented syllables with one of two different vowel sounds, which merged in later pronunciation
- 用 容 欲 夜 与 余 四 世 代 吉
- U+3088, U+30E8
- yo
- 吉野のヨ Yoshino no "yo"
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.
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.
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 "common" or "plain" kana (originally also "easy", as contrasted with kanji). [1] [2] [3]
