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.
(2001-03-18)
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