Hiragana and katakana came from kanji?

Buntaro

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Would anyone be interested in seeing the list of kanji that each hiragana and katakana were derived from?

 

SacredBlue

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I've seen such a list but no longer have it, I'd love to see it again

 

Elizabeth

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Thomas put up a link to a good, heavily annotated site I referenced a while back, so it should still be here somewhere....

 

Buntaro

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Omigosh! I cannot find that listing of kanji-to-kana. Elizabeth, can you find that link?

 

Elizabeth

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I don't know what happened to the previous one, but anyway here it is again. Just follow the hiragana or katakana links, or whatever sidetracks you in the meantime. A very interesting set of ideas.


Japanese language and script

 

Buntaro

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Thanks Elizabeth! I had forgotten where a lot of those kana originated from.

Just to make it easy for everyone, here are the two pages that list the kanji that hiragana and katakana came from:



Japanese Hiragana


Japanese katakana

 

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Elizabeth

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そして今でも猫と豹の間にはツシマヤマネコという交配種が存在しますね。


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