た

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Stroke order

Character	た
Unicode name	HIRAGANA LETTER TA
Codepoint	U+305F

Japanese

Etymology 1

Short form of tare (“id”).

Pronoun

た (romaji ta)

1. interrogative personal pronoun; who
   • c. late 9th–mid-10th century: Taketori Monogatari

     あの書をきし文を讀み聞かせけれど、「なにせむにか命もおしからむ。たが爲にか。何事も用もなし」とて[...]

Etymology 2

Derived in the Heian period from writing the man'yōgana kanji 太 in the cursive sōsho style.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [tä]

Syllable

た (Hepburn romanization ta)

1. The hiragana syllable た (ta), whose equivalent in katakana is タ (ta). It is the sixteenth syllable of the gojūon order, and its position in gojūon tables is た行あ段 (TA-gyō, A-dan; “row TA, section A”).

Related terms

• For a list of words starting with た (ta) see: Special:Allpages/た

Derived terms

• だ (da)

See also

• (Hiragana) 平仮名; あぁ, いぃ, うぅゔ, えぇ, おぉ, かゕが, きぎ, くぐ, けゖげ, こご, さざ, しじ, すず, せぜ, そぞ, ただ, ちぢ, つっづ, てで, とど, な, に, ぬ, ね, の, はばぱ, ひびぴ, ふぶぷ, へべぺ, ほぼぽ, ま, み, む, め, も, やゃ, ゆゅ, よょ, ら, り, る, れ, ろ, わゎ, ゐ, ゑ, を, ん, ー, ゝ, ゞ, ゟ

Etymology 3

Kanji reading

た (romaji ta)

1. 他: other
2. 田: field

References

• 1957 May 22, Atsuyoshi Sakakura; Yūichi Ōtsu, Hiroshi Tsukishima, Toshiko Abe, Imai Gen'e, Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 9: Taketori Monogatari, Ise Monogatari, Yamato Monogatari (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-0006-0009-5: