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- hentaigana. In the ****anese writing system, hentaigana (変体仮名, 変体がな, ****anese pronunciation: [hentaiɡana] or [hentaꜜiɡana], lit. "variant kana") are variant forms...
- ordering. After the 1900 script reform, which deemed hundreds of characters hentaigana, the hiragana syllabary consists of 48 base characters, of which two (ゐ...
- characters used phonetically to transcribe ****anese (e.g. man'yōgana); and hentaigana, which are historical variants of the now-standard hiragana. Katakana...
- The fullwidth character may be used for spacing purposes aesthetically. Hentaigana (変体仮名), a set of archaic kana made obsolete by the Meiji reformation,...
- believed to exist were just variant forms of hiragana called hentaigana. Being hentaigana, they did not make up a cohesive or independent writing system...
- containing one archaic katakana character and 255 hentaigana (non-standard Hiragana) characters. Additional hentaigana characters are encoded in the Kana Extended-A...
- man'yōgana eventually gave rise to hiragana, including the now-obsolete hentaigana (変体仮名) alternatives, alongside a separate system that became katakana...
- often next to the N signs or, because it developed from one of many mu hentaigana, below the u column. It may also be appended to the vowel row or the a...
- contains Hentaigana characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Hentaigana. Wu (hiragana:...
- as well, while ん was originally a hentaigana used for both n and mu. In the 1900 ****anese script reforms, hentaigana were officially declared obsolete...