あ
See also: ぁ and Appendix:Variations of "a"
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [a̠]
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Etymology 1
Derived in the Heian period from writing the man'yōgana kanji 安 in the cursive sōsho style.
Syllable
あ (romaji a)
- The hiragana syllable あ (a). Its equivalent in katakana is ア (a). It is the first syllable in the gojūon order; its position is あ行あ段 (a-gyō a-dan, “row a, section a”).
See also
Etymology 2
The short form of 我 (are).
Alternative forms
Pronoun
あ (rōmaji a)
- 我: (archaic) first-person personal pronoun; I, me
- c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 14, poem 3456)
- 宇都世美能 夜蘇許登乃敝波 思気久等母 安良蘇比可祢弖 安乎許登奈須那
- c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 14, poem 3457)
- 宇知日佐須 美夜能和我世波 夜麻登女乃 比射麻久其登尓 安乎和須良須奈
- c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 14, poem 3458)
- 奈勢能古夜 等里乃乎加恥志 奈可太乎礼 安乎祢思奈久与 伊久豆君麻弖尓
- c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 14, poem 3471)
- 思麻良久波 祢都追母安良牟乎 伊米能未尓 母登奈見要都追 安乎祢思奈久流
- c. 1001–1014, Genji Monogatari (Yūgao)
- あが君、生き出で給へ。いと、いみじき目な見せ給ひそ
- c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 14, poem 3456)
Derived terms
- 我 (are)
References
- Satake, Akihiro; Hideo Yamada; Rikio Kudō; Masao Ōtani; Yoshiyuki Yamazaki (c. 759) Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 3: Man’yōshū 3 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 2002, →ISBN.
- Yamagishi, Tokuhei (1958) Koten Bungaku Taikei 14: Genji Monogatari 1 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
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