仮か名な文も字じ

Similar words

• ひらがな

  Hiragana is one of the two kana syllabaries; 仮名文字 is the broader term covering both hiragana and katakana.

• カタカナ

  Katakana is the other kana syllabary; 仮名文字 includes both.

• 漢かん字じ

  Kanji are Chinese characters used in Japanese; 仮名文字 refers specifically to the native syllabic scripts.

Etymology

Compound of 仮名 (kana, 'borrowed name', referring to characters derived from kanji) and 文字 (moji, 'character'). The term distinguishes the syllabic kana from logographic kanji.