hentaigana
In the Japanese writing system, are variant forms of hiragana.
Key facts
- Writing system.name
- Hentaigana
- Writing system.sample
- Hiragana_I_01.svg
- Writing system.type
- Syllabary
- Writing system.languages
- Japanese
- Writing system.time
- – 1900 CE; minor use at present
- Writing system.fam1
- Oracle bone script
- Writing system.fam2
- Seal script
- Writing system.fam3
- Clerical script
- Writing system.fam4
- Regular script (kanji)
- Writing system.fam5
- Man'yōgana
- Writing system.fam6
- Sōgana
- Writing system.sisters
- Katakana, Hiragana
Article
11 sectionsContents
- Description
- History
- Standardized ''hentaigana''
- Sources
- In Unicode
- Modern usage
- Gallery
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
In the Japanese writing system, are variant forms of hiragana.
== Description == In contrast to modern Japanese, hiragana historically had several distinct forms representing a single sound. For example, while the hiragana reading "ha" has only one form in modern Japanese (は), until the Meiji era (1868–1912) it was written in various forms, including 18px|class=skin-invert-image, 18px|class=skin-invert-image, and 18px|class=skin-invert-image. The shift to using only one character for each sound occurred as part of the 1900 script reform, which also included other changes to the written language to standardize spelling (and was part of a larger project to westernize the country).