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仮名遣かなづかい (kanazukai)

kana orthography,syllabary spelling

  • JLPT N2
  • noun
  • Pitch 3
  • #80561 most frequent

Meaning

仮名遣い (かなづかい, kanazukai) is a JLPT N2 noun meaning “kana orthography,syllabary spelling”.

Kanji in this word

Example sentences 7

祖父そふは古ふるい仮名遣かなづかいで書かくことがあるの。

My grandfather sometimes uses the old kana orthography in writing.

旧仮名遣いでの読みは同じ。

Reading in the old Japanese syllabary characters is the same.

この仮名遣いは間違っている.

This use of kana is wrong [mistaken].

歴史的仮名遣いでは「てんわう」と表記する。

It is written 'Tenwau' in historical kana-zukai (rule of writing Japanese syllabary).

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