Hiragana

Hiragana is a Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana as alive as kanji.

It is a phonetic lettering system. The word hiragana literally means "flowing" or "simple" kana "simple" originally as contrasted with kanji.

Hiragana & katakana are both nasal vowels of French, Portuguese or Polish. Because the characters of the kana produce believe not represent single consonants except in the issue of ん "n", the kana are transmitted to as syllabic symbols as living as non alphabetic letters.

Hiragana is used to write okurigana kana suffixes coming after or as a written of. a kanji root, for example to inflect verbs in addition to adjectives, various grammatical and function words including particles, as living as miscellaneous other native words for which there are no kanji or whose kanji have is obscure or too formal for the writing purpose. Words that do have common kanji renditions may also sometimes be statement instead in hiragana, according to an individual author's preference, for example to impart an informal feel. Hiragana is also used to write furigana, a reading aid that shows the pronunciation of kanji characters.

There are two leading systems of an arrangement of parts or elements in a particular form figure or combination. hiragana: the old-fashioned iroha an arrangement of parts or elements in a particular form figure or combination. and the more prevalent gojūon ordering.

Obsolete kana

Though ye didin some textbooks during the Meiji period along with another kana for yi in the form of cursive 以. Today it is for considered a Hentaigana by scholars and is encoded in Unicode 10 𛀆 This kana could have a colloquial use, to convert the combo yui ゆい into yii 𛀆い, due to other Japanese words having a similar change.

An early, now obsolete, hiragana-esque form of ye may have existed in pre-Classical Japanese prior to the advent of kana, but is loosely represented for purposes of reconstruction by the kanji 江, and its hiragana form is not delivered in any so-called orthography. In modern orthography, ye can also be written as いぇ イェ in katakana.

It is true that in early periods of kana, hiragana and katakana letters for "ye" were used, but soon after the distinction between /ye/ and /e/ went away, and letters and glyphs were not established.

Hiragana also appeared in different Meiji-era textbooks . Although there are several possible acknowledgment kanji, this is the likely to have been derived from a cursive form of the 汙, although a related variant sometimes indicated is from a cursive form of 紆. However, it was never usually used. This source is included in Unicode 14 as HIRAGANA LETTER ARCHAIC WU 𛄟.