平假名

píngjiǎmíng

noun #77,595

Meanings

1 hiragana (Japanese phonetic script)

Characters

borrowed, substitute

name, character

Examples

HSK 3

这个词在日语里用平假名写。

Zhège cí zài Rìyǔ lǐ yòng píngjiǎmíng xiě.

This word is written in hiragana in Japanese.

HSK 5

学日语要先掌握平假名和片假名。

Xué Rìyǔ yào xiān zhǎngwò píngjiǎmíng hé piàn jiǎmíng.

When learning Japanese, you first need to master hiragana and katakana.

Tips

culture

假名 literally means 'borrowed/false names' - a Chinese-language calque for the Japanese term kana (仮名), the syllabic scripts derived from simplified Chinese characters. 平 ('flat/cursive') hiragana evolved from cursive Chinese; 片 ('partial') katakana evolved from fragments of Chinese characters.

Stroke Order

平 píng

假 jiǎ

名 míng