Kana Extended-A 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
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 ...
(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
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Kana Supplement (Unicode block)
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Small Kana Extension (Unicode block)
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Hiragana (Unicode block)
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Katakana (Unicode block)
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Kana Extended-B (Unicode block)
References
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Unicode blocks