okurigana

English

Etymology

From Japanese 送(おく)り仮名(がな) (okurigana).

Noun

okurigana (plural okurigana)

  2. (orthography) In the Japanese language, the kana which follow a stem written with kanji, which record how that stem is inflected, and guides recognition of the appropriate kun'yomi reading (word stem associated with the kanji); for example, く (ku) and かべる (kaberu) in 浮(う)く (u-ku, “to float”, intransitive) and 浮(う)かべる (u-kaberu, “to float”, transitive), or む (mu) and きる (kiru) in 生(う)む (umu, “to birth”) and 生(い)きる (ikiru, “to live”). Perhaps analogous to -st, -nd in English 1st (first), 2nd (second).

Translations

Japanese

Romanization

okurigana

  1. Rōmaji transcription of おくりがな
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