Are there official kanji attached to popular particles?


After some research on my own (looking through the list of kun-readings for
more obscure kanji), I can more or less surely claim:

に is 于 (which is simultaneously many things, including ここに and を);

まで is 迄;

の, of course, is 之.

But what for the others? Are there specific kanji for は, for が, for で etc.?




@kandyman's answer focuses on the official aspect of your question and
conclude that you should use hiragana. That is indeed what you should do.
However if you are instead interested by historic usage that is no longer in
use except for some occurrences of 迄 on placards, and some obscure books might
still use 乍らand 許り. You should remember that those are not official.

Here is a quick list of what I found:

  * 「之」（の）
  * 「于」（に）
  * 「自・由・従」（より）
  * 「与」（と）
  * 「者」（は）
  * 「乎・哉・邪・耶」（疑問の終助詞「や」・「か」）
  * 「耳」・「而已矣」・「已」（のみ）
  * 「乍ら」（ながら）
  * 「許り」（ばかり）
  * 「程」（ほど）
  * 「位」（くらい）
  * 「等・抔」（など）

助動詞

  * 「不・弗」（打消の助動詞「ず」）
  * 「可」（推量の助動詞「べし」）
  * 「使・令」（使役の助動詞「しむ」）
  * 「見・被」（受身の助動詞「る」・「らる」）
  * 「如・若」（比況の助動詞「ごとし」）
  * 「也」（断定の助動詞「なり」）

The part about 助動詞 is what you would expect to find in a 漢文 text.

There are some more weird kanji in 漢文 like 雖[いえど]も but those are neither
particles nor auxiliaries.

Refs: <https://kou.benesse.co.jp/nigate/japanese/a13j0305.html>




@kandyman's answer focuses on the official aspect of your question and
conclude that you should use hiragana. That is indeed what you should do.
However if you are instead interested by historic usage that is no longer in
use except for some occurrences of 迄 on placards, and some obscure books might
still use 乍らand 許り. You should remember that those are not official.

Here is a quick list of what I found:

  * 「之」（の）
  * 「于」（に）
  * 「自・由・従」（より）
  * 「与」（と）
  * 「者」（は）
  * 「乎・哉・邪・耶」（疑問の終助詞「や」・「か」）
  * 「耳」・「而已矣」・「已」（のみ）
  * 「乍ら」（ながら）
  * 「許り」（ばかり）
  * 「程」（ほど）
  * 「位」（くらい）
  * 「等・抔」（など）

助動詞

  * 「不・弗」（打消の助動詞「ず」）
  * 「可」（推量の助動詞「べし」）
  * 「使・令」（使役の助動詞「しむ」）
  * 「見・被」（受身の助動詞「る」・「らる」）
  * 「如・若」（比況の助動詞「ごとし」）
  * 「也」（断定の助動詞「なり」）

The part about 助動詞 is what you would expect to find in a 漢文 text.

There are some more weird kanji in 漢文 like 雖[いえど]も but those are neither
particles nor auxiliaries.

Refs: <https://kou.benesse.co.jp/nigate/japanese/a13j0305.html>

