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Okurigana (送り仮名, ****anese pronunciation: [okɯɾiɡana], "accompanying letters") are kana
suffixes following kanji stems in ****anese
written words. They...
- furigana. The
furigana version is used for pronunciation.[citation needed]
Okurigana are kana that
appear inline at
normal size
following kanji stems, typically...
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three syllables in length, not
counting trailing hiragana called okurigana.
Okurigana are not
considered to be part of the
internal reading of the character...
- non-inflective
okurigana, such as 唐揚げ (karaage; Chinese-style
fried chicken) and 折り紙 (origami); many can also be
written with the
okurigana omitted. Kanji...
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syllabic symbols and not
alphabetic letters.
Hiragana is used to
write okurigana (kana
suffixes following a
kanji root, for
example to
inflect verbs and...
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communications and literature.
Hiragana is used to
write the following:
okurigana (送り仮名)—inflectional
endings for
adjectives and verbs—such as る in 見る (miru...
- difficult), as well as
grammatical elements such as
particles and
inflections (
okurigana).
Today katakana is most
commonly used to
write words of
foreign origin...
- to the
foreign word to
inflect or
otherwise modify it, as if it were
okurigana,
which is
written in hiragana. List of ****anese
Latin alphabetic abbreviations...
- verb and
adjective conjugations.
Hiragana used in this way are
called okurigana.
Hiragana can also be
written in a
superscript called furigana above or...
- 脹, 錘, 匁).
Hyphens in the kun'yomi
readings separate kanji from
their okurigana. The "New"
column attempts to
reflect the
official glyph shapes as closely...
