Where does “現代仮名遣い” come from?

現代仮名遣い (Japanese) comes from Japanese 仮名遣い, from Japanese 仮名, from Japanese 名, from Middle Chinese 名 — name.

現代仮名遣い (Japanese): the method of using kana to write Japanese that has been used after the 1946 (post-war) Japanese national language reform; unlike its predecessor, it is almost entirely phonetic, reflecting the modern language with little ambiguity

Definitions

the method of using kana to write Japanese that has been used after the 1946 (post-war) Japanese national language reform; unlike its predecessor, it is almost entirely phonetic, reflecting the modern language with little ambiguity

Ancestry of “現代仮名遣い”, step by step

現代仮名遣い traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 仮名遣い

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Japanese	仮名遣い	kana usage
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

via Japanese 現代

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Japanese	現代	the present day, modern times, nowadays,...
2	Japanese	代	substitution; price, cost, charge; shiro, a unit...
3	Middle Chinese	代	—

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