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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

  1. noun A false or assumed name used instead of a person's real one.
  2. noun (computing) A short alternative name that stands in for a longer command, file, or database column.
  3. verb To give something an additional, alternative name.

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.

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