Where does “가타카나” come from?

가타카나 (Korean) comes from Japanese 片仮名, from Japanese 仮名, from Japanese 名, from Middle Chinese 名 — name.

가타카나 (Korean): katakana

Definitions

  1. katakana

Ancestry of “가타카나”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese片仮名Katakana, a set of Japanese syllabary characters,...
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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