century. The name "man'yōgana" derives from the Man'yōshū, a Japanese poetry anthology from the Nara period written with man'yōgana. Texts using the system...

educated). Man'yōgana (万葉仮名, kana used in the Man'yōshū): the most prominent system of magana. Sōgana (草仮名, sloppy kana): cursive man'yōgana. Hiragana...

full-fledged script for written Japanese existed until the development of man'yōgana (万葉仮名), which appropriated kanji for their phonetic value (derived from...

sections are written in Man'yōgana, which uses kanji for their phonetic as well as semantic values. Based on the Man'yōgana system, Old Japanese can...

purposes only. It represents an intermediate cursive form between historic man'yōgana script and modern hiragana. Sōgana appears primarily in Heian era texts...

the katakana ナ two. Both represent [na]. な and ナ originate from the man'yōgana 奈. な is used as part of the okurigana for the plain negative forms of...

700s into the Man'yōgana system, a rebus-like transcription that uses specific kanji to represent Japanese phonemes. For instance, man'yōgana spells the...

significant for using the earliest Japanese writing system, the cumbersome man'yōgana. Though it was by no means the first use of this writing system—which...

main Japanese syllabic writing system, derived from a cursive form of man'yōgana, a system where Chinese ideograms (kanji) were used to write sounds without...

transcribe the sounds of Japanese syllables. An early system of this type was man'yōgana, as used in the 8th-century anthology Man'yōshū. This system was not quite...