sōgana
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thumb|Chart showing various Japanese characters in their ''man'yōgana, sogana (red) and hiragana'' forms.
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- kana
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- man'yōgana
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- hiragana
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thumb|Chart showing various Japanese characters in their ''man'yōgana, sogana (red) and hiragana'' forms.
is an archaic Japanese syllabary, now used for aesthetic purposes only. It represents an intermediate cursive form between historic man'yōgana script and modern hiragana. Sōgana appears primarily in Heian era texts, most notably the and . Originating from cursive forms of the man'yōgana characters, commonly occurring sōgana were further adapted and by the early eleventh century had evolved into the forms of modern hiragana.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “sōgana” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.