kana

Summary

kana is a syllabary^[1]. kana draws 805 Wikipedia views per month (syllabary category, ranking #3 of 14).^[2]

Key Facts

• kana's image is recorded as Tosa nikki copied by Teika.JPG^[3].
• kana's image is recorded as Kana Chart.svg^[4].
• kana's image is recorded as Japanese Kana Mnemonic Chart.png^[5].
• kana's instance of is recorded as syllabary^[6].
• kana's based on is recorded as man'yōgana^[7].
• kana's GND ID is recorded as 4263789-2^[8].
• kana's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85069661^[9].
• kana's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 12544656c^[10].
• kana's subclass of is recorded as syllabary^[11].
• kana's subclass of is recorded as natural writing system^[12].
• kana's subclass of is recorded as unicase alphabet^[13].
• kana's subclass of is recorded as Japanese writing system^[14].
• kana's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00564829^[15].
• kana's part of is recorded as Japanese writing system^[16].
• kana's has use is recorded as Japanese^[17].
• kana's Commons category is recorded as Kana^[18].
• kana's language of work or name is recorded as Japonic^[19].
• kana's country of origin is recorded as Japan^[20].
• kana's ISO 15924 alpha-4 code is recorded as Hrkt^[21].
• kana's has part is recorded as hiragana^[22].
• kana's has part is recorded as katakana^[23].
• kana's has part is recorded as hentaigana^[24].
• kana's has part is recorded as kana character^[25].
• +0800-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of kana^[26].
• kana's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04d3t^[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for kana include Kanadehon Chūshingura^[28], a kabuki play^[29], written by Takeda Izumo II^[30] and kanazōshi^[31], a literary genre^[32].

Why It Matters

kana draws 805 Wikipedia views per month (syllabary category, ranking #3 of 14).^[2] kana has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[33] kana is known by 35 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[34]

Entities named for kana include Kanadehon Chūshingura^[28], a kabuki play^[29], written by Takeda Izumo II^[30] and kanazōshi^[31], a literary genre^[32].