Early Middle Japanese - Writing System

Writing System

Early Middle Japanese was written in three different ways. It was first recorded in Man'yƍgana, Chinese characters used as a phonetic transcription as in Early Old Japanese. This usage later produced the hiragana and katakana syllabic scripts which were derived from simplifications of the original Chinese characters.

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