At the core of Japanese there\u2019s hiragana, the basic Japanese alphabet (or syllabary, if you want to be pedantic about it). But it wasn\u2019t until pretty recently that hiragana was standardized. Until the 20th century, people could basically write hiragana however they wanted to. Those different ways of writing hiragana were called hentaigana (\u5909\u4f53\u4eee\u540d). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At the core of Japanese there\u2019s hiragana, the basic Japanese alphabet (or syllabary, if you want to be pedantic about it). But it wasn\u2019t until pretty recently that hiragana was standardized. Until the 20th century, people could basically write hiragana however they wanted to. Those different ways of writing hiragana were called hentaigana (\u5909\u4f53\u4eee\u540d). <\/p>\n
Source<\/strong>: Tofugu<\/a>
\nSubject<\/strong>: History<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"authors":[],"sources":[504],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","sources-tofugu"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n