Kana Supplement is a
Unicode block containing one archaic
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 rÅmaji). The word ''katakana'' means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana characters are derived fro ...
character 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 ther ...
(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 contras ...
) characters. Additional hentaigana characters are encoded in the
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 rec ...
block.
Block
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Kana Supplement block:
See also
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Hiragana (Unicode block)
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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 ...
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Kana Extended-A (Unicode block)
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Kana Extended-B (Unicode block)
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Small Kana Extension (Unicode block)
References
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Unicode blocks