different between syllabary vs hiragana

English

Etymology

From Neo-Latin syllab?rium, from syllaba

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?l??b??i/, /s??læb??i/

Noun

syllabary (plural syllabaries)

1. (orthography) A table or list of syllabic letters or syllables
2. (orthography) A writing system where each character represents a complete syllable

   It shouldn't be hard to come up with a musical syllabary in which pitches code for vowels and timbres code for consonants.

   Hyponyms: alphasyllabary, abugida

Hypernyms

• signary

Meronyms

• syllabogram

Related terms

• syllable

Translations

English

Etymology

From Japanese ?(??)?(?)?(?) (hiragana).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?.????æ.n?/, /?h?.??????.n?/
• Rhymes: -æn?, -??n?

Noun

hiragana (plural hiraganas or hiragana)

1. (uncountable) The main syllabary for the Japanese language, used to represent native Japanese words, including particles, and when kanji is used, to represent verb and adjective endings.
2. A letter of this syllabary.

Related terms

• hentaigana
• katakana
• man'y?gana

Translations

See also

• Index:Japanese Kana

Finnish

Noun

hiragana

1. hiragana (syllabary)
2. hiragana (letter of the syllabary)

Declension

Anagrams

• hangaari

Japanese

Romanization

hiragana

1. R?maji transcription of ????

Polish

Etymology

From Japanese ??? (hiragana).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /x?i.ra??a.na/

Noun

hiragana f

1. hiragana

Declension

Portuguese

Noun

hiragana m (uncountable)

1. hiragana (Japanese syllabary)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Japanese ??? (hiragana).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xira??na/
• Hyphenation: hi?ra?ga?na

Noun

hiragàna f (Cyrillic spelling ?????????)

1. hiragana

Declension