hiragana
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hiragana
(Japanese)The cursive formed Japanese kana syllabary.
Hiragana is mostly used for grammatical particles,
verb-inflection, and Japanese words which are not written in
kanji or which are too difficult for an educated person to
read or write in kanji. Hiragana are also used for
furigana.
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