Hiragana

E3828

Japanese syllabary writing system

Hiragana is a Japanese phonetic syllabary used primarily for native words, grammatical elements, and beginners’ reading and writing.

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All labels observed (4)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Japanese syllabary ⓘ writing system ⓘ
contrastWith	Kanji as logographic characters ⓘ Katakana as foreign-word syllabary ⓘ
hasCharacter	あ ⓘ い ⓘ う ⓘ え ⓘ お ⓘ か ⓘ き ⓘ く ⓘ け ⓘ こ ⓘ さ ⓘ し ⓘ す ⓘ せ ⓘ そ ⓘ た ⓘ ち ⓘ つ ⓘ て ⓘ と ⓘ な ⓘ に ⓘ ぬ ⓘ ね ⓘ の ⓘ は ⓘ ひ ⓘ ふ ⓘ へ ⓘ ほ ⓘ ま ⓘ み ⓘ む ⓘ め ⓘ も ⓘ や ⓘ ゆ ⓘ よ ⓘ ら ⓘ り ⓘ る ⓘ れ ⓘ ろ ⓘ わ ⓘ を ⓘ ん ⓘ
hasDiacritic	dakuten ⓘ handakuten ⓘ
historicalDevelopment	simplified cursive forms of Chinese characters ⓘ
ISO15924Code	Hira ⓘ
numberOfBasicCharacters	46 ⓘ
originatedFrom	manyogana ⓘ
scriptType	phonetic script ⓘ syllabary ⓘ
standardizedIn	modern Japanese orthography ⓘ
supports	p-sound syllables ⓘ voiced consonant syllables ⓘ
UnicodeBlock	Hiragana self-link ⓘ
UnicodeRange	3040–309F ⓘ
usedAlongside	Kanji ⓘ Katakana ⓘ Latin alphabet ⓘ
usedBy	children in Japan ⓘ learners of Japanese as a foreign language ⓘ
usedFor	beginners’ reading ⓘ beginners’ writing ⓘ furigana ⓘ grammatical particles ⓘ inflectional endings ⓘ native Japanese words ⓘ okurigana ⓘ phonetic transcription of Japanese ⓘ
writingDirection	horizontal left-to-right ⓘ vertical top-to-bottom ⓘ
writingSystemOf	Japanese ⓘ surface form: Japanese language

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Japan → writingSystem → Hiragana ⓘ

East Asia → hasWritingSystem → Hiragana ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kana

Hiragana → UnicodeBlock → Hiragana self-link ⓘ

Japonic languages → writingSystem → Hiragana ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kana

Kyushu dialect → usesScript → Hiragana ⓘ

Hira → scriptName → Hiragana ⓘ

Hira → characterSet → Hiragana ⓘ

this entity surface form: Unicode Hiragana block

Mitsuru → hasScript → Hiragana ⓘ

Saga dialect → usesScript → Hiragana ⓘ

Fumihiko → hasScript → Hiragana ⓘ

Katakana → contrastedWith → Hiragana ⓘ

Heihachiro → script → Hiragana ⓘ

Kana → hasPart → Hiragana ⓘ

Shigeru → writingSystem → Hiragana ⓘ

Isamu → writingSystem → Hiragana ⓘ

Ōse village, Ehime Prefecture, Japan → hasScript → Hiragana ⓘ

subject surface form: Ōse

Masayuki → script → Hiragana ⓘ

Nobutaka → writingSystem → Hiragana ⓘ

this entity surface form: hiragana

Yukio → writingSystem → Hiragana ⓘ

Yoko → writingSystem → Hiragana ⓘ

Masaru → writingSystem → Hiragana ⓘ

this entity surface form: hiragana

Noboru → script → Hiragana ⓘ