 | James Curtis Hepburn - 1886 - 1012 ページ
...these characters being separated, and not admitting of being run into each other as a grass hand, they have been little used, except in dictionaries, books...intended for the learned, or to spell foreign names. The Hira-kana (zf- fR =?), or plain letters, are also Chinese characters written in a running or. grass... | |
 | Ernest Wilson Clement - 1903 - 492 ページ
...But, as these characters were separate, and did not easily run together, they have not been used much, "except in dictionaries, books intended for the learned, or to spell foreign names." The next modification was a contraction of Chinese characters into a running, or grass, hand, and is... | |
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Katakana, (fa ^ ig), or side letters, (1 of the table) are also derived from the Chinese characters, where instead of taking the whole, only a part of the character is used. These are more ancient than the Hl.rukana, but have been little used except in... 