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In Japanese, hiragana that trail a kun’yomi kanji in a word, to indicate verbal/adjectival inflections or to disambiguate readings; e.g. 見る miru \see\ / 見た mita \saw\; 上る noboru / 上す nobosu / 上がる agaru / 上げる ageru