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hentaigana en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. A character belonging to obsolete, now non-standard hiragana.
   • Modern hiragana is a descendant of various earlier versions now usually called hentaigana. 1985, Earl Miner, Hiroko Odagiri, Robert E. Morrell, The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature, Princeton University Press,, →ISBN, page 281:

Forms

Relateds

man'yōgana · hiragana · katakana

Translations (6)

fr hentaigana ((Japanese) a variant form of a hiragana or katakana character) · pl hentaigana ((Japanese) a variant form of a hiragana or katakana character) · ko 헨타이가나 ((Japanese) a variant form of a hiragana or katakana character) · ja 変体仮名 ((Japanese) a variant form of a hiragana or katakana character) · ru хэнта́йга́на ((Japanese) a variant form of a hiragana or katakana character) · cmn 變體假名 /变体假名 ((Japanese) a variant form of a hiragana or katakana character)