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Japanese
Etymology
Compound of 仮名 (kana, “kana”) + 遣い (tsukai, “use”).
The tsukai changes to zukai as an instance of rendaku (連濁)
Pronunciation
Noun
仮名遣い • (kanazukai) ←かなづかひ (kanadukafi)?
- (linguistics) kana usage (orthography)
- (linguistics) how letters or characters are read or pronounced ("used")
- 上代特殊仮名遣い
- jōdai tokushu kanazukai
- special kana usage in Old Japanese
- a method of writing (or "using") letters or characters
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