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firagana

firagana is the archaic form of hiragana.

Meaning of hiragana

Noun

hiragana (countable and uncountable, plural hiraganas or hiragana)

  1. (uncountable) The main syllabary for the Japanese language, used to represent native Japanese words, including particles, and when kanji is used, to represent verb and adjective endings.
  2. A letter of this syllabary.

Forms of firagana

pluralfiragana

Questions about firagana

What is firagana the archaic form of?
Firagana is the archaic form of hiragana.

Words near firagana in the dictionary

  1. fir cone
  2. fir cones
  3. fir-cone
  4. fir-cones
  5. firable
  6. firagana
  7. firangi
  8. firangis
  9. Firbank
  10. Firbankian
  11. Firbeck

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Adapted from Wiktionary: firagana (page history and authors); hiragana (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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