name
Meaning 1
Alternative letter-case form of hiragana.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
hiragana
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˌhɪ.ɹəˈɡæ.nə/
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/ˌhɪ.ɹəˈɡɑː.nə/
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rhymes with -ænə
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rhymes with -ɑːnə
noun
Meaning 2
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Meaning relationships
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noun
Meaning 3
A letter of this syllabary.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Japanese 平(ひら)仮(が)名(な) (hiragana).
Across languages
Translations
36 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: هِيرَاغَانَا (hiraḡānā) — Japanese syllabary
- Arabic: هيراقانا (hīrāgāna) — Japanese syllabary
- Armenian: հիրագանա — Japanese syllabary
- Belarusian: хіра́гана (xiráhana) — Japanese syllabary
- Belarusian: хірага́на (xirahána) — Japanese syllabary
- Bulgarian: хирагана — Japanese syllabary
- Chinese Mandarin: 平假名 (píngjiǎmíng) — Japanese syllabary
- Czech: hiragana — Japanese syllabary
- Finnish: hiragana — Japanese syllabary
- French: hiragana — Japanese syllabary
- Georgian: ჰირაგანა — Japanese syllabary
- German: Hiragana — Japanese syllabary
- Greek: χιραγκάνα (chiragkána) — Japanese syllabary
- Hebrew: היראגאנה — Japanese syllabary
- Hindi: हीरागाना (hīrāgānā) — Japanese syllabary
- Indonesian: hiragana — Japanese syllabary
- Japanese: 平仮名 — Japanese syllabary
- Korean: 히라가나 — Japanese syllabary
- Macedonian: хирагана — Japanese syllabary
- Malay: hiragana — Japanese syllabary
- Marathi: हिरागाना (hirāgānā) — Japanese syllabary
- Mongolian: хирагана (xiragana) — Japanese syllabary
- Persian: هیراگانا — Japanese syllabary
- Polish: hiragana — Japanese syllabary
- Portuguese: hiragana — Japanese syllabary
- Russian: хира́гана (xirágana) — Japanese syllabary
- Russian: хирага́на (xiragána) — Japanese syllabary
- Serbo-Croatian: хирагана — Japanese syllabary
- Serbo-Croatian: hiragana — Japanese syllabary
- Spanish: hiragana — Japanese syllabary
- Swedish: hiragana — Japanese syllabary
- Thai: ฮิระงะนะ (hí-rá-ngá-ná) — Japanese syllabary
- Ukrainian: хіра́ґана (xirágana) — Japanese syllabary
- Ukrainian: хіраґа́на (xiragána) — Japanese syllabary
- Vietnamese: hiragana — Japanese syllabary
- Vietnamese: chữ mềm — Japanese syllabary
Real reading context