id: "Hira"
name: "Hiragana"
family: "East Asian"
summary: "Hiragana (<span class=\'autonym\'>平仮名, ひらがな</span>) is an East Asian syllabary, written vertically right-to-left and horizontally left-to-right (120 million users). Used in Japan for Japanese and the Ryukyuan languages. Hiragana is used to write okurigana (kana suffixes following a kanji root, for example to inflect verbs and adjectives), various grammatical and function words including particles, as well as miscellaneous other native words for which there are no kanji or whose kanji form is obscure or too formal for the writing purpose."