Katakana 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
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 fr ...
characters for the Japanese and
Ainu languages
The Ainu languages ( ), sometimes known as Ainuic, are a small language family, often regarded as a language isolate, historically spoken by the Ainu people of northern Japan and neighboring islands, and formerly in parts of the Asian mainland, i ...
.
Block
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Katakana block:
See also
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Katakana Phonetic Extensions (Unicode block)
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Kana Extended-A (Unicode block)
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Kana Extended-B (Unicode block)
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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 ...
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Small Kana Extension (Unicode block)
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Hiragana (Unicode block)
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CJK Compatibility (Unicode block)
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Enclosed CJK Letters and Months (Unicode block)
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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 Mul ...
References
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Unicode blocks
Kana