{"id":1083,"date":"2009-11-06T06:09:33","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T08:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comoaprenderjapones.net\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2018-03-15T01:09:11","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T04:09:11","slug":"japanese-alphabet-origin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comoaprenderjapones.net\/en\/alfabeto-japones-origem\/","title":{"rendered":"The Origin of the Japanese Alphabet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"604ea9ec9f03ce20cb5fee53cf49f850\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-0652292147574552\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Ads responsivo Inicio Post CAJap -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0652292147574552\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3298668993\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Before the introduction of Chinese symbols in Japan, there was no concrete evidence that the people of the rising sun already had a form of writing. Despite the talk about the origin of the <a href=\"https:\/\/comoaprenderjapones.net\/en\/japanese-writing-systems\/\">Japanese writing<\/a>, everyone agrees that it originated with Chinese symbols.<span id=\"more-4\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Origin of the Japanese Alphabet<\/h2>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1084 size-full\" title=\"origin of japanese alphabet\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comoaprenderjapones.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/origem-do-alfabeto-japones.jpg?resize=109%2C108&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"origin of japanese alphabet\" width=\"109\" height=\"108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comoaprenderjapones.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/origem-do-alfabeto-japones.jpg?w=109&amp;ssl=1 109w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comoaprenderjapones.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/origem-do-alfabeto-japones.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comoaprenderjapones.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/origem-do-alfabeto-japones.jpg?resize=65%2C65&amp;ssl=1 65w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comoaprenderjapones.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/origem-do-alfabeto-japones.jpg?resize=125%2C125&amp;ssl=1 125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 109px) 100vw, 109px\" \/>Many historians believe that Chinese characters arrived through Buddhist monks, who, when they came to Japan, brought Chinese texts with them around the 5th century. These texts were written in the Chinese language, and at first they would have been read as such, but with Over the years, a system known as\u00a0<strong>kanbun (\u6f22\u6587)<\/strong>\u00a0was developed. THE <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kanbun\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new system basically<\/a> used signs to allow Chinese symbols to be used to represent Japanese words, thus preserving the native language.<\/p>\n<p>As the Japanese language did not have a written form at that time, another system called\u00a0<strong>man&#039;yogana<\/strong>\u00a0which used some Chinese characters based on their own pronunciation rather than their meaning.<\/p>\n<p>During the 8th century, when Japanese literature was growing, many Chinese symbols were simplified, giving rise to a system based on phonemes that we know today as <a href=\"https:\/\/comoaprenderjapones.net\/en\/hiragana-full-table\/\">hiragana<\/a>. At that time, although Japanese women did not have access to higher education and training, many of them stood out in the field of literature and contributed to the construction of hiragana. \u201cI think it was because of the female influence that the\u00a0<strong>hiragana<\/strong>\u00a0It has these curved and more drawn shapes\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the other side of the coin, the monastery students sought to find a simple way to represent sounds in writing. The new symbols produced by this process were created with more polygonal or square lines, making them easier to write. These symbols are now called\u00a0<strong>katakana<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Through a simple and small study of Japanese history, we confirm that Japanese writing did indeed come from China, and that the alphabets known as hiragana and <a href=\"https:\/\/comoaprenderjapones.net\/en\/katakana-full-table\/\">katakana<\/a> are from Chinese characters.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the introduction of Chinese symbols in Japan, there was no concrete evidence that the people of the rising sun already had a form of writing. Despite the talk about the origin of Japanese writing, all<\/p>","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":1088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,47,48,49],"tags":[16,50],"class_list":["post-1083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alfabeto-japones","category-alfabeto-japones-hiragana","category-alfabeto-japones-katakana","category-curso-de-japones-gratis","tag-alfabeto-japones","tag-origem-do-alfabeto-japones"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comoaprenderjapones.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/kanbun-%E6%BC%A2%E6%96%87.jpg?fit=786%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1091,"url":"https:\/\/comoaprenderjapones.net\/en\/alfabeto-japones-introducao\/","url_meta":{"origin":1083,"position":0},"title":"Introduction to Japanese Alphabet","author":"L\u00edngua Japonesa","date":"1 de November de 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"O alfabeto japon\u00eas pode ser dividido em tr\u00eas partes hiragana,\u00a0katakana\u00a0e\u00a0kanjis. 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