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Hentaigana
変体仮名 変体がな 變體假名 變體がな itaigana (異体仮名)[1]
Script type
Syllabary
Time period
c. 800 – 1900 CE; minor use at present
Languages
Japanese
Related scripts
Parent systems
Oracle bone script
Seal script
Clerical script
Regular script (kanji)
Man'yōgana
Hentaigana
Sister systems
Katakana, Hiragana
ISO 15924
ISO 15924
Hira(410), Hiragana
Unicode
Unicode alias
Hiragana
Unicode range
U+1B000–U+1B0FF Kana Supplement
U+1B100–U+1B12F Kana Extended-A
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Japanese writing
Components
Kanji
Stroke order
Radicals
Kyōiku kanji
Jōyō kanji
Jinmeiyō kanji
Hyōgai kanji
List of kanji by stroke count
Kana
Hiragana
Katakana
Hentaigana
Man'yōgana
Sōgana
Gojūon
Typographic symbols
Japanese punctuation
Iteration mark
Uses
Syllabograms
Furigana
Okurigana
Braille
Transliteration
Rōmaji
Hepburn (colloquial)
Kunrei (ISO)
Nihon (ISO transliteration)
JSL (transliteration)
Wāpuro (keyboard)
Cyrillization
Polivanov system
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In the Japanese writing system, hentaigana (変体仮名, 変体がな, Japanese pronunciation:[hentaiɡana] or [hentaꜜiɡana], lit. "variant kana")[a] are variant forms of hiragana.[2]
^笹原宏之, 横山詔, Eric Long (2003). 現代日本の異体字. 三省堂. pp. 35–36. ISBN 4-385-36112-6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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