送り仮名

Japanese

kanjitab
Definitions
  • okurigana: in written Japanese, the kana added after a kanji to indicate inflection endings, such as the in

Etymology

Compound from Japanese 送り (sending) + Japanese 連用形 (meeting, house, counselor, store, gathering, building)+ Japanese continuative or stem form of verb m + Japanese 送る (send)+ Japanese to send, from the sense of sending something afterward or adding something on the end + Japanese 仮名 (kana, the hiragana katakana syllabaries, Japanese phonetic syllabary characters, syllabic letter, a syllabary character).

Origin

Japanese

仮名

Gloss

kana, the hiragana katakana syllabaries, Japanese phonetic syllabary characters, syllabic letter, a syllabary character

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