a category of Japanese syllabary scripts: kana · a syllabogram, an individual character belonging to one of the syllabaries: kana · a temporary name, an alias
eş: 通称, 通称名, 別名, 俗称, 通称, 俗称
zıt: 実名: actual name; 本名
köken: From Old Japanese. Compound of 仮(かり) (kari, “borrowing, provisional thing”, cognate with verb 借(か)る (karu, “to borrow”), the Old Japanese form of modern 借(か)りる (kariru)) + 名(な) (na, “name, character”), from the way that Chinese characters were borrowed for their phonetic values to spell out the sounds of native Japanese words. Used in contrast to 真(ま)名(な) (mana, “true name, true character”), a…