せんみょうがき

Japanese
Alternative spellings
宣命書き
宣命書

Etymology

From 宣命(せんみょう) (senmyō) + 書(か)き (kaki, “連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 書(か)く (kaku).”). The kaki changes to gaki as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [sẽ̞mʲːo̞ːɡa̠kʲi]

Noun

せんみょうがき • (senmyō-gaki) ←せんみゃうがき (senmyaugaki)?

  1. A historical form of Japanese writing. Text is written entirely in kanji, with functional morphemes written in smaller-sized man'yōgana.
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