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Japanese syllabic writing. The characters are simplified kanji and are usually used with kanji primarily to write inflections, particles, and function words and to show the pronunciations of some kanji and of all foreign words.
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Any of the characters used in this system.
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The portion of the Japanese writing system that is a syllabary.
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Any of the characters in this syllabary.
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The hiragana and katakana syllabaries. These are used to write Japanese words and particles using characters that represent syllables. Kana are derived from kanji.
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A hiragana or katakana character.
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Plural form of kana.
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Origin of kana

  • Japanese from Old Japanese kanna, kana contraction of karina (literally, provisional letter, as opposed to kanji which were considered to be Chinese characters in their true use) kari- provisional, not according to rule na name, letter

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Japanese 仮名 (kana, “syllabary”).

    From Wiktionary

Kana Sentence Examples

  • Kefr Kenna, now a flourishing Christian village at the foot of the Nazareth hills, south of the Buttauf, is one of the sites identified with Cana of Galilee, and the ruin Kana, on the north side of the same plain, represents the site pointed out to the pilgrims of the 12th and 13th centuries.

  • In 745 Thomas of Kana brought a new 1 "In punishment by the cross (was) the suffering of this One; He who is the true Christ, and God alone, and Guide ever pure."

  • There was no clear pattern of greater impairment for kanji with right hemisphere lesions and greater impairment for kana with left hemisphere lesions.

  • The TRS-80 model II had a second character set, Japanese kana.

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