Where does “okurigana” come from?

okurigana (English) comes from Japanese 送り仮名, from Japanese 仮名, from Japanese 名, from Middle Chinese 名 — name.

okurigana (English): In the Japanese language, the kana written after...

Definitions

  1. In the Japanese language, the kana written after...

Ancestry of “okurigana”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese送り仮名okurigana: in written Japanese, the kana added...
2Japanese仮名a category of Japanese syllabary scripts: kana; a...
3Japanese名name; reputation; famous, great, noted
4Middle Chinese名name
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