Where does “hiragana” come from?

hiragana (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Japanese 平仮名, from Japanese 仮名, from Japanese 名, from Middle Chinese 名 — name.

hiragana (Serbo-Croatian): hiragana

Definitions

  1. hiragana

Ancestry of “hiragana”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese平仮名hiragana, a Japanese syllabary script; simple
2Japanese仮名a category of Japanese syllabary scripts: kana; a...
3Japanese名name; reputation; famous, great, noted
4Middle Chinese名name
Every word from Middle Chinese 名 →Every word from Japanese 名 →Every word from Japanese 仮名 →