Hiragana is a kind of phonography used in Japanese. Except for one or two hiraganas, they all evolved from cursive scripts of Chinese characters and were formed in the 9th century. In the early days, it was reserved for Japanese women. Later, with the popularity of Murasaki shikibu's Tale of Genji, Japanese men began to accept and use it.

Japanese writing and pronunciation of hiragana: hiragana.

In modern times, hiragana is divided into four purposes: 1, marking the pronunciation of Chinese characters; 2. As an auxiliary word; 3. Mix with Chinese characters; 4. The composition of greetings.

Extended data:

Phonetic symbols record the sounds in a language with a few letters, thus recording the words of the language. According to the phonetic units represented by words, phonetic symbols can be divided into the following categories.

Syllabic text: a letter representing a syllable, such as a pseudonym; A letter represents a part of a syllable; The phonetic unit represented by a letter is between syllables and phonemes, such as phonetic symbols; Vowel marker words and consonant phoneme words: a morpheme represents a phoneme, but vowels and consonants are treated differently; Phoneme writing: A phoneme means a phoneme.

The writing of most countries in the world is phonography.

Can be divided into:

(1) syllable writing: one letter represents one syllable.

Such as: Japanese pseudonym

(2) Phonological writing: a letter represents a phoneme.

For example, Latin alphabet used in English and French, Slavic alphabet used in Russian, Arabic alphabet used in Arabic and Uyghur.

Phonetic symbols refer to the recording forms and symbols when a language expresses its content. It is a writing system with phonetic notation, which is consistent with its spoken language. This set of recorded symbols is called recording. For example, pseudonyms, proverbs and Latin letters all belong to it.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia: Hiragana; Baidu encyclopedia: singing method