Syllabic writing

Japanese: syllabic writing(英語表記)syllabicwriting
Syllabic writing

...There are also special uses of kanji, such as the use of characters to write foreign place names and personal names in China, where the sound aspect is used alone, detached from their inherent meaning, and the same can be seen in the phonetic use of kanji in Japan, such as in the Man'yōgana writing system.
[Syllabary]
Syllabic writing, as typified by kana, is a system in which each character expresses the sound of a word by analyzing it down to the syllable unit. For example, the Japanese word "head" is written in kana as three characters, "atama."

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "syllabic writing" are listed below.

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Japanese:

…また,漢字の特殊な用法として,中国における漢字による外国の地名・人名の表記にみられるように,その固有の意味をはなれて音の面だけを利用する場合があるし,日本における〈万葉仮名〉などにおける漢字の表音的な用い方も同様である。
[音節文字]
 〈音節文字syllabic writing〉はかなで代表されるように,個々の字が単語の音の面を音節の単位にまで分析して書き表す。たとえば日本語の〈頭〉という単語は,かなでは〈あたま〉という3字で書かれる。…

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