Hentaigana
Japanese writing variant of hiragana / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with Hentai.
In the Japanese writing system, hentaigana (変体仮名, 変体がな, Japanese pronunciation: [hentaiɡana] or [hentaꜜiɡana], lit. "variant kana")[lower-alpha 1] are variant forms of hiragana.[2]
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Quick Facts Hentaigana 変体仮名変体がな變體假名變體がなitaigana (異体仮名), Script type ...
Hentaigana | |
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Script type | |
Time period | c. 800 – 1900 CE; minor use at present |
Languages | Japanese |
Related scripts | |
Parent systems | |
Sister systems | Katakana, Hiragana |
ISO 15924 | |
ISO 15924 | Hira (410), Hiragana |
Unicode | |
Unicode alias | Hiragana |
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This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. |
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