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Set of cursive Japanese symbols
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hiragana
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
from Japanese hiragana , from hira "plain" + kana "borrowed letter(s)."
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The main syllabary for the Japanese language, used to represent native Japanese words, including particles, and when kanji is used, to represent verb and adjective endings. 2 A letter of this syllabary.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Hiragana is a Unicode block containing hiragana characters for the Japanese language.
Usage examples of hiragana.
It was Japanese portable with a keyboard the length of a cricket bat, a complex mess of ASCII, kanji, katakana, hiragana and arcane function keys.
So they took to hiragana and katakana and, in the process, created the country's first true written literature, The Pillow Book of Seishonagon and the classic Genji Monogatari, both dating from the beginning of the eleventh century.
A word would be typed in Hiragana, the fifty-one-letter Japanese phonetic alphabet, and on the screen would appear the corresponding Chinese ideogram in Kanji.
Each page is a grid, a table with hiragana or katakana or kanji in one box, a group of digits or Romanji in another box, and the pages all cross-referenced to other pages in a scheme only a cryptographer could love.