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okurigana

in Japanese, hiragana that trail a kun’yomi kanji in a word, to indicate verbal/adjectival inflections or to disambiguate readings; e.g. 見る miru "see" / 見た mita "saw"; 上る noboru / 上す nobosu / 上がる agaru / 上げる ageru
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okurigana

Summary

okurigana ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (87 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • okurigana's image is recorded as Okurigana.svg[2].
  • okurigana's subclass of is recorded as hiragana[3].
  • okurigana's part of is recorded as Japanese orthography[4].
  • okurigana's Commons category is recorded as Okurigana[5].
  • okurigana's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03tdqn[6].
  • okurigana's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://japanese.stackexchange.com/tags/okurigana[7].
  • okurigana's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'ja', 'text': '送り仮名'}[8].
  • okurigana's Australian Educational Vocabulary ID is recorded as scot/9314[9].
  • okurigana's Namuwiki ID is recorded as 오쿠리가나[10].

Why It Matters

okurigana ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (87 views/month).[1] okurigana has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] okurigana is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). okurigana. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/okurigana
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_okurigana_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{okurigana}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/okurigana}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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