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Hiragana originated as simplified forms of similar-sounding Chinese characters. Hiragana character shapes were derived from Chinese cursive script (sōsho). Shown here is a sample of cursive script by 7th century calligrapher Sun Guoting. Note the character 為 (wei), indicated by the red arrow, closely resembles the hiragana character ゐ (wi).
Enclosed Ideographic Supplement (Unicode block) has a single hiragana character: U+1F200; Kana Supplement (Unicode block) has a single katakana and 255 hentaigana characters; Kana Extended-A (Unicode block) continues with additional 31 hentaigana characters; Kana Extended-B (Unicode block) continues with additional kana for Taiwanese Hokkien
Characters U+3099 and U+309A are combining dakuten and handakuten, which correspond to the spacing characters U+309B and U+309C. U+309D is the hiragana iteration mark, used to repeat a previous hiragana. U+309E is the voiced hiragana iteration mark, which stands in for the previous hiragana but with the consonant voiced (k becomes g, h becomes ...
95 characters; the 52 alphabet characters belong to the Latin script. The remaining 43 belong to the common script. The 33 characters classified as ASCII Punctuation & Symbols are also sometimes referred to as ASCII special characters. Often only these characters (and not other Unicode punctuation) are what is meant when an organization says a ...
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る (hiragana) begins with a horizontal stroke to the right, followed by a slightly longer, angular stroke going down and to the left. Finally, a curve and loop are added to the bottom that somewhat resembles the hiragana no (の). The character as a whole is visually similar to the hiragana for ro (ろ).
Character information Preview ん ン ﾝ 녣 녧 Unicode name HIRAGANA LETTER N KATAKANA LETTER N HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER N HIRAGANA LETTER SMALL N KATAKANA LETTER SMALL N Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex dec hex dec hex Unicode: 12435: U+3093: 12531: U+30F3: 65437: U+FF9D: 110947: U+1B163: 110951: U+1B167 UTF-8: 227 130 147: E3 82 93: ...
Character information Preview び ビ ぴ ピ Unicode name HIRAGANA LETTER BI KATAKANA LETTER BI HIRAGANA LETTER PI KATAKANA LETTER PI Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex dec hex Unicode: 12403: U+3073: 12499: U+30D3: 12404: U+3074: 12500: U+30D4 UTF-8: 227 129 179: E3 81 B3: 227 131 147: E3 83 93: 227 129 180: E3 81 B4: 227 131 148: E3 83 94 ...