Hiragana and katakana place names
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title:
Hiragana and katakana place names
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The hiragana cities of Japan are municipalities whose names are written in hiragana rather than kanji as is traditional for Japanese place names. Many hiragana city names have kanji equivalents that are either phonetic manyōgana, or whose kanji are outside of the Joyo kanji. Others, such as Tsukuba in Ibaraki Prefecture, are taken from localities or landmarks whose names continue to be written in kanji. Yet another cause is the merger of multiple cities, one of which had the original kanji — in
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Japanese municipalities whose names are not written in kanji
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiragana_and_katakana_place_names
date created:
2005-10-15T12:32:52Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T06:19:50Z
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