おくりがな

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of おくりがな – see the following entry.

[noun] [1477] (orthography) okurigana (in the Japanese language, the kana which follow a stem written with kanji, which record how that stem is inflected, and guides recognition of the appropriate kun'yomi reading (word stem associated with the kanji); for example, く (ku) and かべる (kaberu) in 浮(う)く (uk-u, “to float”, intransitive) and 浮(う)かべる (uk-aberu, “to float”, transitive), or む (mu) and きる (kiru) in 生(う)む (umu, “to birth”) and 生(い)きる (ikiru, “to live”))

Alternative spellings
送りがな, 送仮名

(This term, おくりがな (okurigana), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)