Where does “変体仮名” come from?
変体仮名 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 仮名, from Japanese 名, from Middle Chinese 名 — name.
変体仮名 (Japanese): hentaigana: obsolete, now-non-standard hiragana
Definitions
- hentaigana: obsolete, now-non-standard hiragana
Ancestry of “変体仮名”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Japanese | 仮名 | a category of Japanese syllabary scripts: kana; a... |
| 2 | Japanese | 名 | name; reputation; famous, great, noted |
| 3 | Middle Chinese | 名 | name |
Words derived from “変体仮名”