Definitions For Kana

Noun

KANA (plural kana or kanas) The hiragana and katakana syllabary, syllabaries. These are made up of characters that represent individual syllables, which are are used to write japanese words and particles. Kana are derived from kanji. A hiragana or katakana character.

Related terms

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Translations

Arabic: كَانَا, f Belarusian: ка́на, f Bulgarian: ка́на, f Chinese: : Mandarin: 假名, tr=jiǎmíng, sc=Hani Czech: kana, f Finnish: kana French: kana, m German: Kana, f Greek: κάνα, f Hebrew: קאנה, f (kána) Hindi: काना, m Japanese: 仮名, tr=かな, kana Korean: 가나 Macedonian: ка́на, f Malay: kana Marathi: काना, m, sc=Deva Mongolian: кана, sc=Cyrl Persian: کانا, tr=kânâ, sc=fa-Arab Polish: kana, f Portuguese: kana, m Russian: ка́на, f Serbo-Croatian: : Cyrillic: кана, f, sc=Cyrl : Roman: kana, f Spanish: kana, m Tajik: кана, sc=Cyrl Thai: คะนะ Ukrainian: ка́на, f Urdu: کانا (kānā, sc=ur-Arab) Vietnamese: kana

Etymology

Borrowed from {{bor, en, ja, -}} {{ja-r, 仮名, かな, phonetic character, pos=literally “borrowed character”, from the way that kana were originally Chinese characters "borrowed" for their phonetic values}}.