hentaigana
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Japanese 変体仮名 (hentaigana).
PronunciationEdit
- Rhymes: -ɑːnə
NounEdit
hentaigana (plural hentaigana)
- 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 termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
(Japanese) a variant form of a hiragana or katakana character
See alsoEdit
- hentaigana on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
JapaneseEdit
RomanizationEdit
hentaigana