- hentaigana non-standard kana, variant kana forms, hentaigana
Learners encounter this term mainly in academic or historical discussions of pre-1900 Japanese writing.
この古文書には変体仮名が使われている。
Kono komonjo ni wa hentaigana ga tsukawarete iru.
This old document uses variant kana.
変体仮名は明治時代まで一般的だった。
Hentaigana wa Meiji jidai made ippanteki datta.
Hentaigana were common until the Meiji era.
⚖️ Not to be confused with 異体字 (itaiji), which refers to variant kanji, not kana.
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