Kana — meaning in English

English meaning

• Cana noun The biblical village where, according to the Gospel of John, Jesus turned water into wine.
• kana noun The two Japanese phonetic writing systems, hiragana and katakana, in which each symbol represents a spoken syllable rather than a whole word or idea.

Senses

Kana is used for these senses in English:

• Cana (biblical) The site where Jesus miraculously turned water into wine.
• kana The hiragana and katakana syllabaries. These are made up of characters that represent individual syllables, which are used to write Japanese words and particles. Kana are derived from kanji.

kana — full definition

1. noun The two Japanese phonetic writing systems, hiragana and katakana, in which each symbol represents a spoken syllable rather than a whole word or idea.
2. noun A single character from one of these syllabaries.