hiragana

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hiragana - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  hiragana
  
     <Japanese> The cursive formed Japanese kana syllabary.
     Hiragana is mostly used for grammatical particles,
     verb-inflection, and Japanese words which are not written in
     kanji or which are too difficult for an educated person to
     read or write in kanji.  Hiragana are also used for
     furigana.
  
     (2001-03-18)