Hiragana is a
Unicode block
A Unicode block is one of several contiguous ranges of numeric character codes ( code points) of the Unicode character set that are defined by the Unicode Consortium for administrative and documentation purposes. Typically, proposals such as the ...
containing
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 ...
characters for the
Japanese language
is spoken natively by about 128 million people, primarily by Japanese people and primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language. Japanese belongs to the Japonic or Japanese- Ryukyuan language family. There have been ...
.
Block
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Hiragana block:
See also
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Enclosed Ideographic Supplement (Unicode block) has a single hiragana character: U+1F200
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Kana Supplement (Unicode block) has a single
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 f ...
and 255
hentaigana
In the Japanese writing system, are variant forms of hiragana.
History
Today, with few exceptions, there is only one hiragana for each of the forty-five moras that are written without diacritics or digraphs. However, traditionally there ...
characters
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Kana Extended-A (Unicode block)
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 re ...
continues with additional 31 hentaigana characters
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Kana Extended-B (Unicode block) continues with additional kana for Taiwanese Hokkien
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Small Kana Extension (Unicode block) has four hiragana characters: U+1B132 and U+1B150–U+1B152
References
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Unicode blocks