syllabary

A syllabary is a set of written symbols that represent (or approximate) syllables, which make up words. A symbol in a syllabary typically represents an optional consonant sound followed by a vowel sound.
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(n.)
A table of syllables; more especially, a table of the indivisible syllabic symbols used in certain languages, as the Japanese and Cherokee, instead of letters.
  

Noun
1. a writing system whose characters represent syllables
(synonym) syllabic script
(hypernym) script
(hyponym) Devanagari, Devanagari script, Nagari, Nagari script