>>14248827Honestly writing systems and the different sets aren't my thing, but judging on what I've read about it, no.
"Kana" is weird because it should fit katakana and hiragana under said term. No one really uses "kana" anymore because hiragana and katakana have dominated everything else. You can find some old Nara period stuff (that's pre-Heian) things written in what was intended to be kana, but since it kind of kept evolving it got called other stuff I do not know.
That said, hiragana is mainly used for weaving in Kanji or representing things that have no Kanji available for description. Katakana is like...you using a foreign word in a different writing system?
Anyway, Katakana's used for a lot of things, more than just that. While you can use Kanji for names of companies, you can also use Katakana.
If anyone doesn't understand this, look at Billy the Kid in Japanese, and you'll get the idea. It's written in Katakana and it's used for foreign words/names.
I would've thought that it would be used for foreign words even in Heian considering that it would've served as an alternative for women as opposed to Kanji, not mentioning that Japan had foreign contract with China and India at the time. I can't say for sure. I would say that you're on the mark with hiragana, but it's more complimentary than Katakana which tries to provide an alternative.
