仮名 — meaning in English
kamei
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English meaning
- alias noun A false or assumed name used instead of a person's real one.
- 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.
- pseudonym noun A fake name used instead of someone's real name, especially by writers or performers.
Senses
仮名 is used for these senses in English:
- alias Another name; especially, an assumed name.
- 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.
- pseudonym A fictitious name (more literally, a false name), as those used by writers and movie stars.
alias — full definition
- noun A false or assumed name used instead of a person's real one.
- noun (computing) A short alternative name that stands in for a longer command, file, or database column.
- verb To give something an additional, alternative name.
kana — full definition
- 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.
- noun A single character from one of these syllabaries.