Home › Words › S › suteganasuteganasutegana means japanese small okurigana used with kanbun or small kana used for diphthongs.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, sutegana ranks #3,411 of 42,747 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom Japanese 捨て仮名 (sutegana).nounJapanese small okurigana used with kanbun or small kana used for diphthongs.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.okurigana 54% match — 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”). Perhaps analogous to -st, -nd in English 1st (first), 2nd (second). vs sutegana →hentaigana 53% match — A character belonging to obsolete, now non-standard hiragana. vs sutegana →sedoka 51% match — A particular kind of Japanese poem, composed of two sets of 5-7-7 syllables. vs sutegana →tečka 50% match — A dot diacritic (used to mark consonantal palatalisation). vs sutegana →menuki 50% match — A decorative grip swell on a Japanese sword. vs sutegana →tekka 49% match — A miso condiment made from stir-fried, boiled and powdered root vegetables. vs sutegana →dakuten 48% match — A diacritic (゛) used with Japanese kana to mark a consonant as voiced. vs sutegana →choko 48% match — A small handleless cup in which saké is served. vs sutegana →