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52-657: Hitomi may refer to:. People [ edit ] Hitomi (given name) , a feminine Japanese given name Hitomi (voice actress) (born 1967), Japanese voice actress Hitomi (singer) (born 1976, as Hitomi Furuya), Japanese singer and songwriter Hitomi Nabatame (born 1976), Japanese voice actress Hitomi Yaida (born 1978), also known as Yaiko, Japanese pop/folk singer Hitomi Aizawa (born 1982), Japanese actress, gravure idol and race queen Hitomi Honda (born 2001), Japanese singer from Iz*One and AKB48 Fictional characters [ edit ] Hitomi ( Dead or Alive ) ,

104-513: A dakuten marker ( ゛), a voiceless consonant is turned into a voiced consonant : k → g , ts/s → z , t → d , h/f → b and ch / sh → j (also u → v(u) ). For example, か ( ka ) becomes が ( ga ). Hiragana beginning with an h (or f ) sound can also add a handakuten marker ( ゜) changing the h ( f ) to a p . For example, は ( ha ) becomes ぱ ( pa ). A small version of the hiragana for ya , yu , or yo (ゃ, ゅ or ょ respectively) may be added to hiragana ending in i . This changes

156-591: A Japanese singer-songwriter Hitomi Kuroishi (黒石ひとみ), a Japanese singer, author, and composer noted for her involvement with the soundtracks of the anime Last Exile and Code Geass Hitomi Shimatani (島谷ひとみ, born 1980), a Japanese female pop singer whose songs include one of Inuyasha' s opening theme song " Angelus " Hitomi Takahashi (singer) ( 高橋 瞳 , born 1989) , Japanese singer Hitomi Yaida (矢井田 瞳 born 1978), Japanese pop/folk rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, and musician Hitomi Yoshizawa (吉澤 ひとみ, born 1985), Japanese pop singer and former leader of

208-482: A fictional video game character Hitomi, a fictional character in the Appleseed animated film Hitomi Shizuki, a minor character in the anime/manga series Puella Magi Madoka Magica Hitomi Sagan, a character from AI: The Somnium Files Other uses [ edit ] Hitomi (album) (2000), by John Fahey Hitomi (satellite) (2016), a short-lived X-ray space telescope Topics referred to by

260-410: A vowel such as /a/ (hiragana あ ); a consonant followed by a vowel such as /ka/ ( か ); or /N/ ( ん ), a nasal sonorant which, depending on the context and dialect, sounds either like English m , n or ng ( [ ŋ ] ) when syllable-final or like the nasal vowels of French , Portuguese or Polish . Because the characters of the kana do not represent single consonants (except in the case of

312-565: Is phonemically orthographic , i.e. there is a one-to-one correspondence between kana characters and sounds, leaving only words' pitch accent unrepresented. This has not always been the case: a previous system of spelling, now referred to as historical kana usage , differed substantially from pronunciation; the three above-mentioned exceptions in modern usage are the legacy of that system. There are two hiragana pronounced ji (じ and ぢ) and two hiragana pronounced zu (ず and づ), but to distinguish them, particularly when typing Japanese , sometimes ぢ

364-480: Is つづく . For compound words where the dakuten reflects rendaku voicing, the original hiragana is used. For example, chi ( 血 'blood') is spelled ち in plain hiragana. When 鼻 hana ('nose') and 血 chi ('blood') combine to make hanaji ( 鼻血 'nose bleed'), the sound of 血 changes from chi to ji . So hanaji is spelled はなぢ . Similarly, tsukau ( 使う/遣う ; 'to use') is spelled つかう in hiragana, so kanazukai ( 仮名遣い ; 'kana use', or 'kana orthography')

416-600: Is arranged in a traditional manner, beginning top right and reading columns down. The numbers and arrows indicate the stroke order and direction respectively. Hiragana was added to the Unicode Standard in October, 1991 with the release of version 1.0. The Unicode block for Hiragana is U+3040–U+309F: The Unicode hiragana block contains precomposed characters for all hiragana in the modern set, including small vowels and yōon kana for compound syllables as well as

468-515: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Hitomi (given name) Hitomi Pronunciation (HEE-toh-mee) Gender Feminine Language(s) Japanese Origin Word/name Japanese Meaning 瞳 pupil of the eye 智 wisdom, intellect 美 beautiful although it can have different meanings depending on

520-461: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Hiragana It is a phonetic lettering system. The word hiragana means "common" or "plain" kana (originally also "easy", as contrasted with kanji). Hiragana and katakana are both kana systems. With few exceptions, each mora in the Japanese language is represented by one character (or one digraph) in each system. This may be

572-566: Is generally arduous for a contemporary speaker to consciously perceive inazuma as separable into two discrete words. Thus, the default spelling いなずま is used instead of いなづま . Other examples include kizuna ( きずな ) and sakazuki ( さかずき ). Although these rules were officially established by a Cabinet Notice in 1986 revising the modern kana usage , they have sometimes faced criticism due to their perceived arbitrariness. Officially, ぢ and づ do not occur word-initially pursuant to modern spelling rules. There were words such as ぢばん jiban 'ground' in

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624-603: Is included in Unicode 14 as HIRAGANA LETTER ARCHAIC WU (𛄟). Hiragana developed from man'yōgana , Chinese characters used for their pronunciations, a practice that started in the 5th century. The oldest examples of Man'yōgana include the Inariyama Sword , an iron sword excavated at the Inariyama Kofun. This sword is thought to be made in the year 辛亥年 (most commonly taken to be C.E. 471). The forms of

676-532: Is normally treated as its own syllable and is separate from the other n -based kana ( na , ni etc.). ん is sometimes directly followed by a vowel ( a , i , u , e or o ) or a palatal approximant ( ya , yu or yo ). These are clearly distinct from the na , ni etc. syllables, and there are minimal pairs such as きんえん kin'en 'smoking forbidden', きねん kinen 'commemoration', きんねん kinnen 'recent years'. In Hepburn romanization, they are distinguished with an apostrophe, but not all romanization methods make

728-440: Is now completely obsolete. ゔ vu is a modern addition used to represent the /v/ sound in foreign languages such as English, but since Japanese from a phonological standpoint does not have a /v/ sound, it is pronounced as /b/ and mostly serves as a more accurate indicator of a word's pronunciation in its original language. However, it is rarely seen because loanwords and transliterated words are usually written in katakana , where

780-584: Is pronounced [ɕiteiɾɯ] 'is doing'. In archaic forms of Japanese, there existed the kwa ( くゎ [kʷa] ) and gwa ( ぐゎ [ɡʷa] ) digraphs. In modern Japanese, these phonemes have been phased out of usage. For a more thorough discussion on the sounds of Japanese, please refer to Japanese phonology . With a few exceptions, such as for the three particles は (pronounced [wa] instead of [ha] ), へ (pronounced [e] instead of [he] ) and [o] (written を instead of お), Japanese when written in kana

832-597: Is rarely used with hiragana, for example in the word らーめん , rāmen , but this usage is considered non-standard in Japanese. However, the Okinawan language uses chōonpu with hiragana. In informal writing, small versions of the five vowel kana are sometimes used to represent trailing off sounds ( はぁ , haa , ねぇ , nee ). Plain (clear) and voiced iteration marks are written in hiragana as ゝ and ゞ, respectively. These marks are rarely used nowadays. The following table shows

884-505: Is spelled かなづかい in hiragana. However, there are cases where ぢ and づ are not used, such as the word for 'lightning', inazuma ( 稲妻 ). The first component, 稲 , meaning 'rice plant', is written いな ( ina ). The second component, 妻 (etymologically 夫 ), meaning 'spouse', is pronounced つま ( tsuma ) when standalone or often as づま (zuma) when following another syllable, such in 人妻 ( hitozuma , 'married woman'). Even though these components of 稲妻 are etymologically linked to 'lightning', it

936-531: Is used to add the diacritics to kana that are not normally used with them, for example applying the dakuten to a pure vowel or the handakuten to a kana not in the h-group. Characters U+3095 and U+3096 are small か ( ka ) and small け ( ke ), respectively. U+309F is a ligature of より ( yori ) occasionally used in vertical text. U+309B and U+309C are spacing (non-combining) equivalents to the combining dakuten and handakuten characters, respectively. Historic and variant forms of Japanese kana characters were first added to

988-437: Is written as di and づ is written as du . These pairs are not interchangeable. Usually, ji is written as じ and zu is written as ず. There are some exceptions. If the first two syllables of a word consist of one syllable without a dakuten and the same syllable with a dakuten , the same hiragana is used to write the sounds. For example, chijimeru ('to boil down' or 'to shrink') is spelled ちぢめる and tsuzuku ('to continue')

1040-512: The Unicode Standard in October, 2010 with the release of version 6.0, with significantly more added in 2017 as part of Unicode 10. The Unicode block for Kana Supplement is U+1B000–U+1B0FF, and is immediately followed by the Kana Extended-A block (U+1B100–U+1B12F). These blocks include mainly hentaigana (historic or variant hiragana): The Unicode block for Kana Extended-B is U+1AFF0–U+1AFFF: The Unicode block for Small Kana Extension

1092-428: The g sound (normally [ɡ] ) may turn into a velar nasal [ŋ] or velar fricative [ɣ] . For example, かぎ ( kagi , key) is often pronounced [kaŋi] . However, じゅうご ( jūgo , fifteen) is pronounced as if it was jū and go stacked end to end: [d͡ʑɯːɡo] . In many accents, the j and z sounds are pronounced as affricates ( [d͡ʑ] and [d͡z] , respectively) at the beginning of utterances and fricatives [ʑ, z] in

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1144-400: The historical kana usage , but they were unified under じ in the modern kana usage in 1946, so today it is spelled exclusively じばん . However, づら zura 'wig' (from かつら katsura ) and づけ zuke (a sushi term for lean tuna soaked in soy sauce) are examples of word-initial づ today. No standard Japanese words begin with the kana ん ( n ). This is the basis of the word game shiritori . ん n

1196-489: The i vowel sound to a glide ( palatalization ) to a , u or o . For example, き ( ki ) plus ゃ (small ya ) becomes きゃ ( kya ). Addition of the small y kana is called yōon . A small tsu っ, called a sokuon , indicates that the following consonant is geminated (doubled). In Japanese this is an important distinction in pronunciation; for example, compare さか , saka , "hill" with さっか , sakka , "author". However, it cannot be used to double an n – for this purpose,

1248-512: The kanji used Region of origin Japan [REDACTED] Look up ひとみ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hitomi ( ヒトミ, ひとみ ) is a feminine Japanese given name . It is often written with the single kanji 瞳 ( Japanese for eye ) or the two kanji 仁美. It can also come from 智 (hito) meaning "wisdom, intellect" and 美 (mi) meaning "beautiful". Individuals may alternatively write

1300-454: The 50 theoretically possible combinations, yi , ye , and wu are completely unused. On the w row, ゐ and ゑ , pronounced [i] and [e] respectively, are uncommon in modern Japanese, while を , pronounced [o] , is common as a particle but otherwise rare. Strictly speaking, the singular consonant ん ( n ) is considered as outside the gojūon . These basic characters can be modified in various ways. By adding

1352-609: The J-pop group Morning Musume Hitomi Isaka (井坂 仁美 ), member of the group Kamen Rider Girls Hitomi Honda (本田仁美, born 2001), Japanese singer and member of AKB48 and Iz*One Voice actresses/actresses [ edit ] Hitomi (ひと美, born 1967), Japanese voice actress from Osaka Hitomi Aizawa (相澤 仁美), Japanese actress, gravure idol and race queen Hitomi Kobayashi (小林ひとみ, born 1965), important early Japanese AV idol Hitomi Kuroki (黒木瞳, born 1960), Japanese actress who voiced Helen Parr/Elastigirl/Mrs. Incredible in

1404-1090: The Japanese dub of The Incredibles Hitomi Nabatame (生天目 仁美, born 1976), Japanese voice actress, whose roles include Nanao Ise from Bleach Hitomi Satō (actress) ( 佐藤 仁美 , born 1979) , Japanese actress Hitomi Shiraishi (白石ひとみ, born 1971), Japanese AV Idol from the 1990s Hitomi Takahashi (actress) ( 高橋 ひとみ , born 1961) , Japanese actress Hitomi Yoshida (born 1984) Japanese voice actress Other [ edit ] Hitomi Jinno ( 神野 眸 , born 1937) , Japanese swimmer Hitomi Kamanaka (鎌仲ひとみ, born 1958), Japanese documentary filmmaker Hitomi Kanehara (金原 ひとみ, born 1983), writer who wrote Hebi ni Piasu (Snakes and Earrings) Hitomi Kashima (鹿島 瞳, born 1980), former Japanese butterfly swimmer Hitomi Matsushita ( 松下 仁美 , born 1954) , Japanese handball player Hitomi Sato (table tennis) ( 佐藤 瞳 , born 1997) , Japanese table tennis player Hitomi Shimizu ( 冷水 ひとみ ) , Japanese musician and composer Hitomi Shimura ( 紫村 仁美 , born 1990) , Japanese hurdler Hitomi Soga (曽我ひとみ, born 1959), Japanese woman who

1456-465: The advent of kana ), but is generally represented for purposes of reconstruction by the kanji 江, and its hiragana form is not present in any known orthography. In modern orthography, ye can also be written as いぇ (イェ in katakana ). While hiragana and katakana letters for "ye" were used for a short period after the advent of kana, the distinction between /ye/ and /e/ disappeared before glyphs could become established. It has not been demonstrated whether

1508-402: The aforementioned ん), the kana are referred to as syllabic symbols and not alphabetic letters. Hiragana is used to write okurigana (kana suffixes following a kanji root, for example to inflect verbs and adjectives), various grammatical and function words including particles , and miscellaneous other native words for which there are no kanji or whose kanji form is obscure or too formal for

1560-414: The complete hiragana together with the modified Hepburn romanization and IPA transcription, arranged in four categories, each of them displayed in the gojūon order. Those whose romanization are in bold do not use the initial consonant for that row. For all syllables besides ん, the pronunciation indicated is for word-initial syllables; for mid-word pronunciations see below. In the middle of words,

1612-425: The corresponding character would be written as ヴ. The digraphs ぢゃ , ぢゅ , ぢょ for ja / ju / jo are theoretically possible in rendaku , but are nearly never used in modern kana usage ; for example, the word 夫婦茶碗 , meoto-jawan (couple bowls), spelled めおとぢゃわん , where 茶碗 alone is spelled ちゃわん ( chawan ). The みゅ myu kana is extremely rare in originally Japanese words; linguist Haruhiko Kindaichi raises

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1664-404: The diphthongs ou and ei are usually pronounced [oː] (long o) and [eː] (long e) respectively. For example, とうきょう (lit. toukyou ) is pronounced [toːkʲoː] 'Tokyo', and せんせい sensei is [seɯ̃seː] 'teacher'. However, とう tou is pronounced [toɯ] 'to inquire', because the o and u are considered distinct, u being the verb ending in the dictionary form. Similarly, している shite iru

1716-451: The distinction. For example, past prime minister Junichiro Koizumi 's first name is actually じゅんいちろう Jun'ichirō pronounced [dʑɯɰ̃itɕiɾoː] There are a few hiragana that are rarely used. Outside of Okinawan orthography, ゐ wi [i] and ゑ we [e] are only used in some proper names. 𛀁 e was an alternate version of え e before spelling reform, and was briefly reused for ye during initial spelling reforms, but

1768-474: The example of the Japanese family name Omamyūda ( 小豆生田 ) and claims it is the only occurrence amongst pure Japanese words. Its katakana counterpart is used in many loanwords, however. On the row beginning with わ /wa/, the hiragana ゐ /wi/ and ゑ /we/ are both quasi-obsolete, only used in some names. They are usually respectively pronounced [i] and [e]. In modified Hepburn romanization, they are generally written i and e . It has not been demonstrated whether

1820-421: The hiragana originate from the cursive script style of Chinese calligraphy . The table to the right shows the derivation of hiragana from manyōgana via cursive script. The upper part shows the character in the regular script form, the center character in red shows the cursive script form of the character, and the bottom shows the equivalent hiragana. The cursive script forms are not strictly confined to those in

1872-510: The illustration. When it was first developed, hiragana was not accepted by everyone. The educated or elites preferred to use only the kanji system. Historically, in Japan, the regular script ( kaisho ) form of the characters was used by men and called otokode ( 男手 ) , "men's writing", while the cursive script ( sōsho ) form of the kanji was used by women. Hence hiragana first gained popularity among women, who were generally not allowed access to

1924-630: The manga Nurse Hitomi's Monster Infirmary Hitomi, friend of Yuri in Wedding Peach Hitomi Tadano, a character in Komi Can't Communicate Hitomi Takano, main protagonist of the manga Hitomi-chan is Shy With Strangers See also [ edit ] Hitomi (disambiguation) Hitomi Takahashi (disambiguation) References [ edit ] ^ "Hitomi Kuroishi - Hitomi" . [REDACTED] Name list This page or section lists people that share

1976-453: The middle of words. For example, すうじ sūji [sɯːʑi] 'number', ざっし zasshi [d͡zaɕɕi] 'magazine'. The singular n is pronounced [m] before m , b and p , [n] before t , ch , ts , n , r , z , j and d , [ŋ] before k and g , [ɴ] at the end of utterances, and some kind of high nasal vowel [ɰ̃] before vowels, palatal approximants ( y ), and fricative consonants ( s , sh , h , f and w ). In kanji readings,

2028-585: The mora /ji/ existed in old Japanese. Though ye did appear in some textbooks during the Meiji period along with another kana for yi in the form of cursive 以. Today it is considered a Hentaigana by scholars and is encoded in Unicode 10 ( 𛀆 ) This kana could have a colloquial use, to convert the combo yui (ゆい) into yii ( 𛀆 い), due to other Japanese words having a similar change. An early, now obsolete, hiragana-esque form of ye may have existed ( 𛀁 [je] ) in pre-Classical Japanese (prior to

2080-415: The mora /wu/ existed in old Japanese. However, hiragana wu also appeared in different Meiji-era textbooks ( [REDACTED] ). Although there are several possible source kanji, it is likely to have been derived from a cursive form of the man'yōgana 汙 , although a related variant sometimes listed ( [REDACTED] ) is from a cursive form of 紆 . However, it was never commonly used. This character

2132-571: The more prevalent gojūon ordering. After the 1900 script reform , which deemed hundreds of characters hentaigana , the hiragana syllabary consists of 48 base characters, of which two ( ゐ and ゑ ) are only used in some proper names: These are conceived as a 5×10 grid ( gojūon , 五十音 , "Fifty Sounds"), as illustrated in the adjacent table, read あ ( a ), い ( i ), う ( u ), え ( e ), お ( o ), か ( ka ), き ( ki ), く ( ku ), け ( ke ), こ ( ko ) and so forth (but si → shi , ti → chi , tu → tsu , hu → fu , wi → i , we → e , wo → o ). Of

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2184-481: The name using the hiragana as ひとみ. The singer hitomi writes her stage name using the Latin alphabet . Possible writings [ edit ] 仁美, "benevolent, humane, noble, beauty" 人美, "someone, person, beauty" 一美, "one, beauty" 均美, "level beauty" 等美, "class, equal, beauty" 傭美, "employ, hire, beauty" People [ edit ] Singers [ edit ] Hitomi Furuya (古谷仁美, born 1976),

2236-407: The rare ゐ wi and ゑ we ; the archaic 𛀁 ye is included in plane 1 at U+1B001 (see below). All combinations of hiragana with dakuten and handakuten used in modern Japanese are available as precomposed characters (including the rare ゔ vu ), and can also be produced by using a base hiragana followed by the combining dakuten and handakuten characters (U+3099 and U+309A, respectively). This method

2288-476: The same given name . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hitomi_(given_name)&oldid=1174797771 " Categories : Given names Japanese feminine given names Feminine given names Hidden categories: Articles containing Japanese-language text Articles with short description Short description

2340-470: The same levels of education as men, thus hiragana was first widely used among court women in the writing of personal communications and literature. From this comes the alternative name of onnade ( 女手 ) "women's writing". For example, The Tale of Genji and other early novels by female authors used hiragana extensively or exclusively. Even today, hiragana is felt to have a feminine quality. Male authors came to write literature using hiragana. Hiragana

2392-409: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Hitomi . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hitomi&oldid=1211018526 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

2444-470: The singular n (ん) is added in front of the syllable, as in みんな ( minna , "all"). The sokuon also sometimes appears at the end of utterances, where it denotes a glottal stop , as in いてっ! ( [iteʔ] , "Ouch!"). Two hiragana have pronunciations that depend on the context: Hiragana usually spells long vowels with the addition of a second vowel kana; for example, おかあさん ( o-ka-a-sa-n , "mother"). The chōonpu (long vowel mark) (ー) used in katakana

2496-406: The writing purpose. Words that do have common kanji renditions may also sometimes be written instead in hiragana, according to an individual author's preference, for example to impart an informal feel. Hiragana is also used to write furigana , a reading aid that shows the pronunciation of kanji characters. There are two main systems of ordering hiragana : the old-fashioned iroha ordering and

2548-850: The young castle lord from InuYasha Hitomi Kanzaki, heroine of The Vision of Escaflowne Hitomi Kisugi, one of the Cat's Eye trio Hitomi, a character from the Dead or Alive series Hitomi, a character in the Lego theme Exo-Force Hitomi Shinonome, a character in Loveless (manga) Hitomi , a major antagonist in Code:Breaker Hitomi Shizuki, a minor character in Puella Magi Madoka Magica Hitomi Manaka, main protagonist of

2600-428: Was abducted to North Korea to train agents in Japanese customs and language Hitomi Takagaki (高垣 眸, 1898–1983), Japanese writer Hitomi Watanabe ( 渡辺 眸 , born 1939) , Japanese photographer Hitomi Yamaguchi, author and contributor to Nakayoshi Kinue Hitomi (人見 絹枝, 1907–1931), Japanese athlete and the first Japanese woman to receive an Olympic medal Characters [ edit ] Hitomi Kagewaki ,

2652-505: Was more than one possible hiragana. In 1900, the system was simplified so each syllable had only one hiragana. The deprecated hiragana are now known as hentaigana ( 変体仮名 ) . The pangram poem Iroha -uta ("ABC song/poem"), which dates to the 10th century, uses every hiragana once (except n ん, which was just a variant of む before the Muromachi era ). The following table shows the method for writing each hiragana character. The table

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2704-423: Was used for unofficial writing such as personal letters, while katakana and kanji were used for official documents. In modern times, the usage of hiragana has become mixed with katakana writing. Katakana is now relegated to special uses such as recently borrowed words (i.e., since the 19th century), names in transliteration , the names of animals, in telegrams, and for emphasis. Originally, for all syllables there

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