kanji sign for "kanji" and "kana"

[MarieKawaii]

I have woundering this in some days and I can´t find it
Is there a kanji for kanji and a kanji sign for kana ? It´s not importment but it´s interesting i want to see how the sign look likes

have anice day!

[Dustin]

漢字 Kanji
仮名 Kana
平仮名 Hiragana
片仮名 Katakana
振り仮名 Furigana

-Dustin

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Welcome to TJP BTW ^_^

[richvh]

kanji 漢字 "Han character"
kana 仮名 "substitute name"

[wccrawford]

kana 仮名 "substitute name"

You just blew my mind.

[furrykef]

Don't forget 送り仮名 (okurigana)!

The words "hiragana" and "katakana" are typically written ひらがな and カタカナ, though. You don't run into the kanji forms of these words so much, though you do sometimes. Formal/academic contexts and such are more likely to use the kanji forms of these words (the Japanese Wikipedia uses kanji for them, for example).

- Kef

[Yudan Taiteki]

kana 仮名 "substitute name"

You just blew my mind.

Originally this contrasted with 真名(まな), meaning "true name" and referring to Classical Chinese. These names reflect the views towards written Chinese vs. written vernacular Japanese at the time.

Note also that "hiragana" and "katakana" are often written in kana; katakana is often written カタカナ even by native Japanese.

[richvh]

漢字 Kanji
仮名 Kana
平仮名 Hiragana
片仮名 Katakana
振り仮名 Furigana

Let's not forget:
送り仮名 okurigana (kana suffixed to kanji stems.)
読み仮名yomigana (kana used to show the reading of a word. Furigana are a special case of yomigana.)
万葉仮名 man'yougana (kanji used purely for their phonetic value; precursors of the kana.)

[MarieKawaii]

ohh! thanks everyone! Iam so happy
I asked some people in swedish forum but they were bad and told me there was no kanji for it! so the mod deleted the topic
everyone here is so nice at japanesepage!
and thanks for the extra info ^w^

[furrykef]

I was actually going to mention man'yougana, but I think that's needlessly complicating the matter

[AJBryant]

Don't forget one of my favorites -- the bane of the student:

変体仮名　【へんたいがな】"different-form kana."

[furrykef]

Which is, of course, not to be confused with 変態仮名, which is kana porn.

[AJBryant]

Oh, my gosh... what is that む doing to the な?

[MarieKawaii]

Which is, of course, not to be confused with 変態仮名, which is kana porn.

HAHAHA !! kana porn never heard off it before XD

[XJTA]

Oh, my gosh... what is that む doing to the な?

痴漢字

[AJBryant]

Oh, my gosh... what is that む doing to the な?

痴漢字