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Japanese
| For pronunciation and definitions of おくりがな – see the following entry.
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| 【送り仮名】
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- (orthography) okurigana (in the Japanese language, the kana which follow a stem written with kanji, which record how that stem is inflected, and guides recognition of the appropriate kun'yomi reading (word stem associated with the kanji); for example, く (ku) and かべる (kaberu) in 浮く (uk-u, “to float”, intransitive) and 浮かべる (uk-aberu, “to float”, transitive), or む (mu) and きる (kiru) in 生む (umu, “to birth”) and 生きる (ikiru, “to live”))
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| (This term, おくりがな (okurigana), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
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