2. Noun. 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. ¹
3. Noun. A letter thereof ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hiragana
1. a Japanese cursive script [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hiragana
Literary usage of Hiragana
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Things Japanese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with Japan for by Basil Hall Chamberlain (1905)
"THE hiragana SYLLABARY. Id K ha ni &L & n nu ft ft ta re &1 5 mu ut ft ma ke b
ho he to &• £> ru \vo fa $ ka £ tsu ne ko me mi na ku te L (w)e hi mo se su ..."
2. The American Bibliopolist (1875)
"The hiragana signs, on the other hand, are abbreviated cursive forms of a limited
number of the more common Chinese characters. But, unlike the Kat- agana, ..."
3. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"Most of these aro by private authors, and are written either in hiragana, or in
a mixture of Chinese characters and katakana or hiragana, and therefore in ..."
4. Japan: An Account, Geographical and Historical by Charles MacFarlane (1856)
"The other style, called hiragana, employs at least six characters, radically
different from each other, for each sound; varying each of ..."
5. Japan: An Account, Geographical and Historical, from the Earliest Period at by Charles MacFarlane (1856)
"The probability is, that it is this habit of adapting new Chinese characters
which has caused the hiragana sylla- barium to grow to its present incredible ..."
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