noun
kana; Japanese syllabaries
Refers to the two Japanese syllabaries, hiragana and katakana, as opposed to kanji (真名).
See also: 真名
日本語は漢字と仮名を組み合わせて書かれる。
Japanese is written using a combination of kanji and kana.
ひらがなとカタカナは仮名の一種です。
Hiragana and katakana are types of kana.
Contains outdated kanji 假.
Rarely used kanji form.
真名 refers to kanji (Chinese characters) used in Japanese writing, in contrast to 仮名 which are the syllabic scripts derived from them.
From 仮 (kari, 'provisional') + 名 (na, 'character'), referring to characters derived from kanji and used phonetically. The reading かな is a contraction of かりな.