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See also: 眞名

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真名

  1. real name
Kanji in this term
Grade: 3 Grade: 1
kun'yomi
Alternative spellings
眞名 (kyūjitai)真字

From (ma-, “true”) +‎ (na, “namecharacter”). So called "true" because it is used for the meaning of the characters rather than their phonetic values, as opposed to 仮名 (kana, “provisional/borrowed characters”). Compare 真仮名 (magana, “phonetic kanji”).

Compare Korean 진서 (真書, jinseo, “true characters → Chinese characters”).

真()名() (mana)

  1. Synonym of 漢字 (kanji): Chinese characters used to write the Japanese language
    Synonym: 男文字 (otokomoji)
  2. (by extension) kanji written in the 楷書体 (kaisho-tai, “regular script”) style
    • c. 10011014, Murasaki Shikibu, Genji Monogatari (Aoi)
      …草(さう)にも**真名(まな)**にも、さまざまめづらしきさまに書(か)き混(ま)ぜたまへり。
      …sō ni mo mana ni mo, samazama mezurashiki-sama ni kakimaze tamaeri.
      (please add an English translation of this example)
Kanji in this term
ま > まんGrade: 3 Grade: 1
irregular kun'yomi
Alternative spellings
眞名 (kyūjitai)真字

/mana/ → /manːa/

Shift from mana above, due to the addition of 撥音 (hatsuon, “__ (n) sound”).

真(まん)名() (manna)

  1. (rare) Same as まな (mana) above

  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN