平假名

píngjiǎmíng

noun #77,595

Meanings

1 hiragana (Japanese phonetic script)

Characters

borrowed, substitute

name, character

Examples

学日语要先掌握平假名和片假名。

Xué Rìyǔ yào xiān zhǎngwò píngjiǎmíng hé piànjiǎmíng.

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

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.

Tips

culture

假名 (jiǎmíng) 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 jià

名 míng