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Katakana (Unicode Block)
Katakana is a Unicode block containing katakana characters for the Japanese and Ainu languages. Block History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Katakana block: See also * Katakana Phonetic Extensions (Unicode block) * Kana Extended-A (Unicode block) * Kana Extended-B (Unicode block) * Kana Supplement (Unicode block) * Small Kana Extension (Unicode block) * Hiragana (Unicode block) * CJK Compatibility (Unicode block) * Enclosed CJK Letters and Months (Unicode block) * Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms (Unicode block) Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms is a Unicode block U+FF00–FFEF, provided so that older encodings containing both halfwidth and fullwidth characters can have lossless translation to/from Unicode. It is the second-to-last block of the Basic Mul ... References {{Japanese language Unicode blocks Kana ...
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Katakana
is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji). The word ''katakana'' means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana characters are derived from components or fragments of more complex kanji. Katakana and hiragana are both kana systems. With one or two minor exceptions, each syllable (strictly mora (linguistics), mora) in the Japanese language is represented by one character or ''kana'' in each system. Each kana represents either a vowel such as "''a''" (katakana wikt:ア, ア); a consonant followed by a vowel such as "''ka''" (katakana wikt:カ, カ); or "''n''" (katakana wikt:ン, ン), a nasal stop, nasal sonorant which, depending on the context, sounds like English ''m'', ''n'' or ''ng'' () or like the nasal vowels of Portuguese language, Portuguese or Galician language, Galician. In contrast to the hiragana syllabary, which is used for Japanese words not covered by kanji an ...
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Kana Extended-A
Kana Extended-A is a Unicode block containing hentaigana (non-standard hiragana) and historic kana characters. Additional hentaigana characters are encoded in the Kana Supplement block. Block History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Kana Extended-A block: See also * Kana Supplement (Unicode block) * Small Kana Extension (Unicode block) * Hiragana (Unicode block) * Katakana (Unicode block) Katakana is a Unicode block containing katakana characters for the Japanese and Ainu languages. Block History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Katakana block: See ... * Kana Extended-B (Unicode block) References {{Japanese language Unicode blocks ...
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Halfwidth And Fullwidth Forms (Unicode Block)
Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms is a Unicode block U+FF00–FFEF, provided so that older encodings containing both halfwidth and fullwidth characters can have lossless translation to/from Unicode. It is the second-to-last block of the Basic Multilingual Plane, followed only by the short Specials block at U+FFF0–FFFF. Its block name in Unicode 1.0 was Halfwidth and Fullwidth Variants. Range U+FF01–FF5E reproduces the characters of ASCII 21 to 7E as fullwidth forms. U+FF00 does not correspond to a fullwidth ASCII 20 (space character), since that role is already fulfilled by U+3000 " ideographic space". Range U+FF61–FF9F encodes halfwidth forms of katakana and related punctuation in a transposition of A1 to DF in the JIS X 0201 encoding – see half-width kana. The range U+FFA0–FFDC encodes halfwidth forms of compatibility jamo characters for Hangul, in a transposition of their 1974 standard layout. It is used in the mapping of some IBM encodings for K ...
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Enclosed CJK Letters And Months
Enclosed CJK Letters and Months is a Unicode block containing circled and parenthesized Katakana, Hangul, and CJK ideographs. Also included in the block are miscellaneous glyphs that would more likely fit in CJK Compatibility or Enclosed Alphanumerics: a few unit abbreviations, circled numbers from 21 to 50, and circled multiples of 10 from 10 to 80 enclosed in black squares (representing speed limit signs). Its block name in Unicode 1.0 was Enclosed CJK Letters and Ideographs. As part of the process of unification with ISO 10646 for version 1.1, Unicode version 1.0.1 relocated the Japanese Industrial Standard Symbol from the code point U+32FF at the end of the block to U+3004, and re-arranged the encircled katakana letters (U+32D0–U+32FE) from iroha order to gojūon order. The Reiwa symbol (㋿) was added to Enclosed CJK Letters and Months in Unicode 12.1, continuing from the existing era symbols in the (fully allocated by that point) CJK Compatibility block ( Meiji � ...
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CJK Compatibility
CJK Compatibility is a Unicode block containing square symbols (both CJK and Latin alphanumeric) encoded for compatibility with East Asian character sets. In Unicode 1.0, it was divided into two blocks, named CJK Squared Words (U+3300–U+337F) and CJK Squared Abbreviations (U+3380–U+33FF). The square forms can have different presentations when they are used in horizontal or vertical text. For example, the characters (from ) and (from ) should look different in horizontal and in vertical right-to-left: Characters U+337B through U+337E are the Japanese era calendar scheme symbols Heisei (㍻), Shōwa (㍼), Taishō (㍽) and Meiji (㍾) (also available in certain legacy sets, such as the " NEC special characters" extension for JIS X 0208, as included in Microsoft's version and later JIS X 0213). The Reiwa era symbol () is in Enclosed CJK Letters and Months (the CJK Compatibility block having been fully allocated by the time of its commencement). Block History Th ...
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Hiragana (Unicode Block)
Hiragana is a Unicode block containing hiragana characters for the Japanese language. Block History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Hiragana block: See also * Enclosed Ideographic Supplement (Unicode block) has a single hiragana character: U+1F200 * Kana Supplement (Unicode block) has a single katakana and 255 hentaigana In the Japanese writing system, are variant forms of hiragana. Description In contrast to modern Japanese, originally hiragana had several forms for a single sound. For example, while the hiragana reading "ha" has only one form in modern ... characters * Kana Extended-A (Unicode block) continues with additional 31 hentaigana characters * Kana Extended-B (Unicode block) continues with additional kana for Taiwanese Hokkien * Small Kana Extension (Unicode block) has four hiragana characters: U+1B132 and U+1B150–U+1B152 References {{Japanese language Unicode b ...
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Small Kana Extension
Small Kana Extension is a Unicode block containing additional small variants for the Hiragana and Katakana syllabaries, in addition to those in the Hiragana, Katakana and Katakana Phonetic Extensions blocks. Block Unassigned code points in the U+1B130 to U+1B163 range were set aside for possible future small kana. History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Small Kana Extension block: Fonts As of 28 March 2024, 2 fonts are known to support the 15.0 Small Kana Extension range: *BabelStone Han. *Nishiki-teki. Other fonts *FRBTaiwaneseKana supports 𛅦 (U+1B166), but none of the other 8 characters. See also * Hiragana (Unicode block) * Katakana (Unicode block) * Kana Extended-A (Unicode block) * Kana Extended-B (Unicode block) * Kana Supplement (Unicode block) Kana Supplement is a Unicode block containing one archaic katakana character and 255 hentaigana (non-standard Hiragana) characters. Additi ...
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Kana Supplement
Kana Supplement is a Unicode block containing one archaic katakana character and 255 hentaigana (non-standard Hiragana) characters. Additional hentaigana characters are encoded in the Kana Extended-A block. Block History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Kana Supplement block: Fonts As of 26 May 2024, 5 fonts are known to support the 10.0 Kana Supplement range: *BabelStone Han. *HanaMinA. *IPA MJ Mincho. *Noto Serif Hentaigana *Sukima Gothic. See also * Hiragana (Unicode block) * Katakana (Unicode block) Katakana is a Unicode block containing katakana characters for the Japanese and Ainu languages. Block History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Katakana block: See ... * Kana Extended-A (Unicode block) * Kana Extended-B (Unicode block) * Small Kana Extension (Unicode block) References {{Japanese language ...
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Kana Extended-B
Kana Extended-B is a Unicode block containing Taiwanese kana (that is, kana originally created by Japanese linguists to write Taiwanese Hokkien). Block History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Kana Extended-A block: Fonts As of 28 March 2024, 2 fonts are known to support the Kana Extended-B range: *Nishiki-teki. *FRBTaiwaneseKana. See also * Kana Supplement (Unicode block) Kana Supplement is a Unicode block containing one archaic katakana character and 255 hentaigana (non-standard Hiragana) characters. Additional hentaigana characters are encoded in the Kana Extended-A block. Block History The following Unicode-r ... * Small Kana Extension (Unicode block) * Hiragana (Unicode block) * Katakana (Unicode block) * Kana Extended-A (Unicode block) References {{Japanese language Unicode blocks ...
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Katakana Phonetic Extensions
Katakana Phonetic Extensions is a Unicode block containing additional small katakana characters for writing the Ainu language, in addition to characters in the Katakana is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji). The word ''katakana'' means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana characters are derived fr ... block. Further small katakana are present in the Small Kana Extension block. History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Katakana Phonetic Extensions block: References {{Japanese language Unicode blocks Ainu languages Kana ...
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Script (Unicode)
In Unicode, a script is a collection of Letter (alphabet), letters and other written signs used to represent textual information in one or more writing systems. Some scripts support only one writing system and Written language, language, for example, Armenian language, Armenian. Other scripts support many different writing systems; for example, the Latin script in Unicode, Latin script supports English alphabet, English, French alphabet, French, German alphabet, German, Italian alphabet, Italian, Vietnamese language, Vietnamese, Latin alphabet, Latin itself, and several other languages. Some languages make use of multiple alternate writing systems and thus also use several scripts; for example, in Turkish language, Turkish, the Ottoman Turkish alphabet, Arabic script was used before the 20th century but transitioned to Latin in the early part of the 20th century. More or less complementary to scripts are Unicode symbols, symbols and Unicode control characters. The unified Combi ...
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ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 Coded character sets is a standardization subcommittee of the Joint Technical Committee ISO/IEC JTC 1 of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), that develops and facilitates standards within the field of coded character sets. The international secretariat of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 is the Japanese Industrial Standards Committee (JISC), located in Japan. SC 2 is responsible for the development of the Universal Coded Character Set standard (ISO/IEC 10646), which is the international standard corresponding to the Unicode Standard. History The subcommittee was established in 1987 under ISO/TC 97 as ISO/TC 97/SC 2, originally with the title "Character Sets and Information Coding", with the area of work being, "the standardization of bit and byte coded representation of information for interchange including among others, sets of graphic characters, of control functions, of picture elements and audi ...
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