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音仮名
音仮名
Japanese
| Kanji in this term | ||
|---|---|---|
| 音 | 仮 | 名 |
|
おん Grade: 1 |
か > が Grade: 5 |
な Grade: 1 |
| on'yomi | ||
Noun
音仮名 (hiragana おんがな, romaji ongana)
- an orthographic technique utilizing Chinese characters in a way that maps the Chinese pronunciation, or such an approximation, to Japanese sounds to write Japanese words
See also
- 訓仮名 (kungana)