送假名（日语：送り仮名／おくりがな），是指一个日语辞汇之中，汉字后面跟随（即所谓「送」）的假名，用来指示前面汉字的词性或读音。

先看「食べる」（た-べる，taberu，吃）一动词。「食」（た，ta）是汉字，「べる」（beru）就是跟随着汉字、在同一个词之中的送假名。

需留意的是，动词的送假名和动词的词干、词尾是不同的。例如以上的例子，「食べる」（た-べる，taberu，吃）一动词的连用形是「食べ」（た-べ，tabe），用于转变动词时态的词尾「る」（ru）不见了，「べ」（be）仍是该词的送假名。

Okurigana(送り仮名,accompanying letters) are kana suffixes following kanji stems in Japanese written words. They serve two purposes: to inflect adjectives and verbs, and to force a particular kanji to mean a specific idea and be read a certain way. For example, the non-past verb form 见る (miru, "see") inflects to past tense 见た (mita, "saw"), where 见 is the kanji stem, and 见 and た are okurigana, written in hiragana script. With a very few exceptions, okurigana are only used for kun'yomi (native Japanese readings), not for on'yomi (Chinese readings) – Chinese morphemes do not inflect in Japanese, and their pronunciation is inferred from context, since many are used as parts of compound words (kango).