okurigana

English

Etymology

From Japanese 送(おく)り仮名(がな) (okurigana).

Noun

okurigana (plural okurigana)

2. (orthography) In the Japanese language, the kana which follow a stem written with kanji, which record how that stem is inflected, and guides recognition of the appropriate kun'yomi reading (word stem associated with the kanji); for example, く (ku) and かべる (kaberu) in 浮(う)く (uk-u, “to float”, intransitive) and 浮(う)かべる (uk-aberu, “to float”, transitive), or む (mu) and きる (kiru) in 生(う)む (umu, “to birth”) and 生(い)きる (ikiru, “to live”). Perhaps analogous to -st, -nd in English 1st (first), 2nd (second).

Translations

kana written after kanji

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 送假名 (zh) (sòngjiǎmíng)

• Japanese: 送り仮名 (ja) (okurigana)
• Korean: 오쿠리가나 (ko) (okurigana)
• Russian: окурига́на f (okurigána)

Japanese

Romanization

okurigana

1. Rōmaji transcription of おくりがな