Kana Extended-A
Kana Extended-A is a Unicode block containing hentaigana (non-standard hiragana is a Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with ''katakana'' as well as ''kanji''. It is a phonetic lettering system. The word ''hiragana'' literally means "flowing" or "simple" kana ("simple" originally as contrast ...) 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) * Kana Extended-B (Unicode block) References {{Japanese language Unicode blocks ...
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Hiragana
is a Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with ''katakana'' as well as ''kanji''. It is a phonetic lettering system. The word ''hiragana'' literally means "flowing" or "simple" kana ("simple" originally as contrasted with kanji). Hiragana and katakana are both kana systems. With few exceptions, each mora in the Japanese language is represented by one character (or one digraph) in each system. This may be either a vowel such as ''"a"'' (hiragana あ); a consonant followed by a vowel such as ''"ka"'' (か); or ''"n"'' ( ん), a nasal sonorant which, depending on the context, sounds either like English ''m'', ''n'' or ''ng'' () when syllable-final or like the nasal vowels of French language, French, Portuguese language, Portuguese or Polish language, Polish. Because the characters of the kana do not represent single consonants (except in the case of ん "n"), the kana are referred to as syllabic symbols and not alphabetic letters. Hiragana is used t ...
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