hiragana and katakana came from kanji?

[Buntaro]

Would anyone be interested in seeing the list of kanji that each hiragana and katakana were derived from?

[SacredBlue]

I've seen such a list but no longer have it, I'd love to see it again :happy:

[Elizabeth]

Thomas put up a link to a good, heavily annotated site I referenced a while back, so it should still be here somewhere....

[Buntaro]

Omigosh! I cannot find that listing of kanji-to-kana. Elizabeth, can you find that link?

[Elizabeth]

I don't know what happened to the previous one, but anyway here it is again. Just follow the hiragana or katakana links, or whatever sidetracks you in the meantime. A very interesting set of ideas.


http://www.omniglot.com/writing/japanese.htm#origin

[Buntaro]

Thanks Elizabeth! I had forgotten where a lot of those kana originated from.

Just to make it easy for everyone, here are the two pages that list the kanji that hiragana and katakana came from:



http://www.omniglot.com/writing/japanese_hiragana.htm


http://www.omniglot.com/writing/japanese_katakana.htm

[NANGI]

:D :note: :D :note: :D :note: :D :note: :D

[Elizabeth]

そして今でも猫と豹の間にはツシマヤマネコという交配 種が存在しますね。:D


http://eco.goo.ne.jp/wnn-z/files/hogo/tusima.html