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
- In the Japanese language, the kana written after...
Ancestry of “okurigana”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Japanese | 送り仮名 | okurigana: in written Japanese, the kana added... |
| 2 | Japanese | 仮名 | a category of Japanese syllabary scripts: kana; a... |
| 3 | Japanese | 名 | name; reputation; famous, great, noted |
| 4 | Middle Chinese | 名 | name |