Hiragana
E3828
Hiragana is a Japanese phonetic syllabary used primarily for native words, grammatical elements, and beginners’ reading and writing.
Aliases (2)
- Kana ×2
- Unicode Hiragana block ×1
Statements (79)
| 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
→
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| ISO15924Code |
Hira
→
|
| numberOfBasicCharacters |
46
→
|
| originatedFrom |
manyogana
→
|
| scriptType |
phonetic script
→
syllabary → |
| standardizedIn |
modern Japanese orthography
→
|
| supports |
p-sound syllables
→
voiced consonant syllables → |
| UnicodeBlock |
Hiragana
→
|
| 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 language
→
|
Referenced by (7)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
|
Japan
→
Japonic languages ("Kana") → |
writingSystem |
|
Hira
("Unicode Hiragana block")
→
|
characterSet |
|
East Asia
("Kana")
→
|
hasWritingSystem |
|
Hira
→
|
scriptName |
|
Hiragana
→
|
UnicodeBlock |
|
Kyushu dialect
→
|
usesScript |