歴史的仮名遣い
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Japanese
| Kanji in this term | |||||
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| 歴 | 史 | 的 | 仮 | 名 | 遣 |
| れき Grade: 5 |
し Grade: 5 |
てき Grade: 4 |
か Grade: 5 |
な Grade: 1 |
つか > づか Grade: S |
| Alternative spellings |
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| 歷史的假名遣い (kyūjitai) 歴史的仮名遣 |
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Etymology
歴史的 (rekishiteki, “historical”) + 仮名遣い (kanazukai, “kana usage”)
Noun
歴史的仮名遣い • (rekishiteki kanazukai) ←れきしてきかなづかひ (rekisiteki kanadukafi)?
- "Historical kana usage", a historically-informed Japanese orthography. Formed in the Edo period by Keichū (契沖) and taught in schools until 1946, it restores the spellings used in stages of the language (Heian period and earlier) that predate various phonetic mergers.
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Coordinate terms
- 現代仮名遣い (gendai kanazukai, literally “modern kana usage”), the post-1946 successor