hentaigana

English

Etymology

From Japanese 変(へん)体(たい)仮(が)名(な) (hentaigana).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑːnə

Noun

hentaigana (plural hentaigana)

1. A character belonging to obsolete, now non-standard hiragana.
   • 1985, Earl Miner, Hiroko Odagiri, Robert E. Morrell, The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature, Princeton University Press,, →ISBN, page 281:

     Modern hiragana is a descendant of various earlier versions now usually called hentaigana.

Related terms

• hiragana
• katakana
• man'yōgana

Translations

(Japanese) a variant form of a hiragana or katakana character

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 變體假名／变体假名 (zh) (biàntǐ jiǎmíng)

• French: hentaigana (fr) m
• Japanese: 変体仮名 (ja) (へんたいがな, hentaigana)
• Korean: 헨타이가나 (hentaigana)
• Russian: хэнта́йга́на f (xɛntájgána)

See also

• hentaigana on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Japanese

Romanization

hentaigana

1. Rōmaji transcription of へんたいがな