へんたいがな

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of へんたいがな – see the following entry.
変体仮名
[noun] hentaigana: any of the hiragana made obsolete in Meiji-era reforms that enforced having one hiragana for each syllable
Alternative spellings
変体がな, 變體がな
(This term, へんたいがな (hentaigana), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)