The hiragana and katakana syllabaries. These are made up of characters that represent individual syllables, which are are used to write Japanese words and particles. Kana are derived from kanji.

plural of kana

A Japanese female given name from Japanese

A surname.

plural of Kana

(Papua New Guinea) An uncivilised person; a person who follows a traditional rather than modern lifestyle.

A person of Hawaiian descent. / (historical) A South Pacific Islander, especially a labourer in Australia or Canada.

(poetic, archaic) Canada

(pharmacology) A broad-spectrum aminoglycoside antibiotic from a Japanese soil streptomyces (Streptomyces kanamyceticus), used to treat severe bacterial infections and tuberculosis.

Alternative spelling of bus kanaka