On the basis of the Chinese and Japanese readings of these characters a system of phonetic manyogana characters was devised. This in turn was simplified into the hiragana and katakana systems in about the ninth century."NIPO-202", "2421031"
漢字は、音訓別の単語例や、紛らわしいほかの漢字が同時に表示されるので分かりやすい。
Examples of both Chinese and Japanese readings are given, and since other misleading kanji are displayed at the same time, it's easy to understand.〔【出典】Hiragana Times, 2002年12月号◆【出版社】株式会社ヤック企画 〕"HT194028", "2294292"