Studying the origins of the Japanese kana
Posted on 24/03/2013, in Gallery style (showcases my photos), GoldList Method, Languages and Linguistics, Learning Japanese and Chinese and tagged gojuuonzu, hentaigana, hiragana, itaigana, katakana, kotaigana, manyougana. Bookmark the permalink. 3 Comments.
I haven’t looked at their origin since I started learning them, and now that I know the characters, it makes a lot of sense when I see which ones they derived from!
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Some seem to make perfect sense, and then you get to “he” and go “WTF?”.
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Yep. And katakana yo also just discarded the rest of the character. Weird.
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