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Yi (kana)
Yi is a ''hentaigana'', a variant kana or Japanese syllable.Iannacone, Jake (2020)"Reply to The Origin of Hiragana /wu/ 平仮名のわ行うの字源に対する新たな発見"/ref> History It is presumed that ''yi'' would have represented . Along with 𛀁 (''ye'') and 𛄟 (''wu''), the syllable ''yi'' has no officially recognized kana, as these syllables do not occur in native Japanese words; however, during the Meiji period, linguists almost unanimously agreed on the kana for ''yi'', ''ye'', and ''wu''. 𛀆 (''yi'') and 𛄟 (''wu'') are thought to have never occurred as syllables in Japanese, and 𛀁 (''ye'') was merged with え and エ as a result of regular historical sound changes. Characters In the Edo period and the Meiji period, some Japanese linguists tried to separate kana ''i'' and kana ''yi''. The shapes of characters differed with each linguist. 𛀆 and 𛄠 were just two of many shapes. They were phonetic symbols to fill in the blanks of the goju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hentaigana
In the Japanese writing system, are variant forms of hiragana. History Today, with few exceptions, there is only one hiragana for each of the forty-five moras that are written without diacritics or digraphs. However, traditionally there were generally several more-or-less interchangeable hiragana for each. A 1900 script reform ordained that only one selected character be used for each mora, with the rest deemed ''hentaigana''. Today, although not normally used in publication, ''hentaigana'' are still used in shop signs and brand names to create a traditional or antiquated air. Hiragana originate in ''man'yōgana,'' a system where kanji were used to write sounds without regard to their meaning. There was more than one kanji that could be used equivalently for each syllable (at the time, a syllable was a mora). Over time the ''man'yōgana'' was reduced to a cursive form, the hiragana. Many ''hentaigana'' derive from different kanji from the ones for the now-standard hir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kana
The term may refer to a number of syllabaries used to write Japanese phonological units, morae. Such syllabaries include (1) the original kana, or , which were Chinese characters (kanji) used phonetically to transcribe Japanese, the most prominent magana system being ; the two descendants of man'yōgana, (2) , and (3) . There are also , which are historical variants of the now-standard hiragana. In current usage, 'kana' can simply mean ''hiragana'' and ''katakana''. Katakana, with a few additions, are also used to write Ainu. A number of systems exist to write the Ryūkyūan languages, in particular Okinawan, in hiragana. Taiwanese kana were used in Taiwanese Hokkien as glosses (ruby text or ''furigana'') for Chinese characters in Taiwan when it was under Japanese rule. Each kana character (syllabogram) corresponds to one sound or whole syllable in the Japanese language, unlike kanji regular script, which corresponds to a meaning (logogram). Apart from the five vowels, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ye (kana)
Ye is a ''hentaigana'', a variant kana or Japanese syllable, no longer in standard use.Iannacone, Jake (2020)"Reply to The Origin of Hiragana /wu/ 平仮名のわ行うの字源に対する新たな発見"/ref> History It is presumed that 𛀁 would have represented . Along with 𛀆 (''yi'') and 𛄟 (''wu''), the syllable ''ye'' has no officially recognized kana; however, during the Meiji period, linguists almost unanimously agreed on the kana for ''yi'', ''ye'', and ''wu''. 𛀆 and 𛄢 are thought to have never occurred as syllables in Japanese, and 𛀁 was merged with え and エ. Characters Nara period–Heian period Japanese people separated ''e'' and ''ye'' in Man'yōgana, early Hiragana and early Katakana. Man'yōgana *e **愛、哀、埃、衣、依、榎、荏、得 **可愛 *ye **延、曳、睿、叡、盈、要、縁、裔、兄、柄、枝、吉、江 Hiragana *e **(Undiscovered) *ye ** 20px etc. Katakana *e **𛀀 etc. *ye **エ etc. After th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wu (kana)
Wu is a ''hentaigana'', a variant kana or Japanese syllable.Iannacone, Jake (2020)"Reply to The Origin of Hiragana /wu/ 平仮名のわ行うの字源に対する新たな発見"/ref> History It is presumed that 𛄟 would have represented . Along with 𛀆 and 𛀁 (''yi'' and ''ye'' respectively), the syllable ''wu'' has no officially recognized kana, as these syllables do not occur in native Japanese words; however, during the Meiji period, linguists almost unanimously agreed on the kana for ''yi'', ''ye'', and ''wu''. 𛀆 and ''wu'' are thought to have never occurred as syllables in Japanese, and 𛀁 was merged with え and エ. Characters In the Edo period and the Meiji period, some Japanese linguists tried to separate kana ''u'' and kana ''wu''. The shapes of characters differed with each linguist. 𛄟 and 𛄢 were just two of many shapes. They were phonetic symbols to fill in the blanks of the gojuon table. Japanese people didn't separate them in normal writ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
E (kana)
In Japanese writing, the kana え (hiragana) and エ (katakana) (romanised ''e'') occupy the fourth place, between う and お, in the modern Gojūon (五十音) system of collating kana. In the Iroha, they occupy the 34th, between こ and て. In the table at right (ordered by columns, from right to left), え lies in the first column (あ行, "column A") and the fourth row (え段, "row E"). Both represent . Derivation え and エ originate, via man'yōgana, from the kanji 衣 and 江, respectively. The archaic kana ゑ (we), as well as many non-initial occurrences of the character へ (he), have entered the modern Japanese language as え. The directional particle へ is today pronounced "e", though not written as え. Compare this to は (ha) and を (wo), which are pronounced "wa" and "o" when used as grammatical particles. For the kana romanized sometimes as "e", see we (kana). Variant forms Scaled-down versions of the kana (ぇ, ェ) are used to express mora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
