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| | Hiragana Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | Hiragana (平仮名, literally "smooth kana") are a Japanese syllabary, one of four Japanese writing systems (the others are katakana, kanji and rōmaji). |
 | | It would be nice to have some approximate years when Hiragana was invented, when it was used in novels, when it came to be used for okurigana, etc. It would also be nice to show a sample of how words today written in hiragana used to be written in kanji. |
 | | Hiragana was not developed for okurigana, and in fact, was not used primarily for that purpose until the postwar era when a lot of orthographic reforms were introduced (reduced kanji set, formalization of katakana/hiragana roles, rationalized kana spellings): look at some pre-war printed matter and you'll see that most okurigana was in katakana. |
| www.wwwtln.com /finance/94/hiragana-dictionary.html (1154 words) |
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