Which kanji the kana came from?

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Reply #1 - 2010 January 01, 6:55 pm
sethg Member
From: m Registered: 2008-11-07 Posts: 505

Anyone know of a resource where one can see which kanji spawned which kana? I know some are quite obvious (世/せ, 力/か), but I read the other day that 部 was the starting point for へ, which kind of shocked me. It made me curious about the rest.

Any help? big_smile

Reply #2 - 2010 January 01, 7:14 pm
jajaaan Member
From: America Registered: 2009-11-14 Posts: 115

Google
Wikipedia
RTK 2
most JPN textbooks

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Reply #3 - 2010 January 01, 7:15 pm
Fishface Member
From: London Registered: 2009-06-10 Posts: 32

Heisg's Remembering The Kana books have what you're looking for.

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Reply #4 - 2010 January 01, 7:17 pm
Javizy Member
From: England Registered: 2007-02-16 Posts: 770

One of the 世界史 or 日本史 episodes here talked about 万葉仮名 and how the modern writing system came about, but I don't remember which one. Might be interesting anyway. Otherwise wiki it.

Reply #5 - 2010 January 01, 7:27 pm
atylmo Member
From: USA Registered: 2008-08-05 Posts: 124

Speaking of Wikipedia, there's a link at the bottom of the article about hentaigana that's a link to a scanned index (in PDF format) of cursive kana (and their kanji parents), but it really only covers katakana. There's a pretty good chart on the discussion page with both though.

Reply #6 - 2010 January 01, 7:34 pm
jajaaan Member
From: America Registered: 2009-11-14 Posts: 115

Honestly?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kana#History

Reply #7 - 2010 January 01, 8:56 pm
atylmo Member
From: USA Registered: 2008-08-05 Posts: 124

Meh, just sharing what I know hmm I didn't think to check that article (yeah, pretty stupid on my part).

Reply #8 - 2010 January 01, 9:14 pm
sethg Member
From: m Registered: 2008-11-07 Posts: 505

Thanks for the answers everybody (except jajaaan).

And atylmo, thanks to you, too. Don't be sorry big_smile I didn't think to look there either.

Reply #9 - 2010 January 01, 9:18 pm
jajaaan Member
From: America Registered: 2009-11-14 Posts: 115

atylmo wrote:

Meh, just sharing what I know hmm I didn't think to check that article (yeah, pretty stupid on my part).

I didn't mean to imply that your post was bad.  I'm always a little perplexed when someone decides to start a forum thread on a topic that could easily be entered into Google and they'd have the top 10 results of about 2,090,000 in exactly 0.25 seconds.  Just feels like cheating to provide a direct link, but oh well.  (The "Honestly?" wasn't in response to you, in other words.)

Last edited by jajaaan (2010 January 01, 9:20 pm)

Reply #10 - 2010 January 01, 9:19 pm
sethg Member
From: m Registered: 2008-11-07 Posts: 505

What's wrong with wanting a direct link? Are you paying the hosting bill here or something?

Reply #11 - 2010 January 01, 9:23 pm
jajaaan Member
From: America Registered: 2009-11-14 Posts: 115

sethg wrote:

What's wrong with wanting a direct link? Are you paying the hosting bill here or something?

You're right.  I'm wrong.  Sorry for helping you out.

Reply #12 - 2010 January 02, 10:17 am
atylmo Member
From: USA Registered: 2008-08-05 Posts: 124

Heh, sorry jajaaan wink I take stuff waaaay too personally sometimes.

Reply #13 - 2010 January 19, 8:14 am
Ben Bullock Member
Registered: 2010-01-19 Posts: 61

sethg wrote:

Anyone know of a resource where one can see which kanji spawned which kana? I know some are quite obvious (世/せ, 力/か), but I read the other day that 部 was the starting point for へ, which kind of shocked me. It made me curious about the rest.

This is my web page on that topic: http://www.sljfaq.org/afaq/originofkana.html

I'd welcome corrections or comments.

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