The kaisho-tai (square or block style of writing) style or simple gyosho-tai (semi-cursive style of writing) style Chinese characters used for recording kana portions of Japanese language were called magana.
このように楷書体や平易な行書体程度の漢字を使って日本語のかなの部分に当てはめて書き記したものを真仮名（まがな）と呼んだ。