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Small Kana Extension is a Unicode block containing additional small variants for the Hiragana and Katakana syllabaries, [3] in addition to those in the Hiragana, Katakana and Katakana Phonetic Extensions blocks.
It is a phonetic lettering system. The word hiragana means "common" or "plain" kana (originally also "easy", as contrasted with kanji). [1] [2] [3] Hiragana and katakana are both kana systems. With few exceptions, each mora in the Japanese language is represented by one character (or one digraph) in each system.
Hiragana: 1-byte: 3/0: 30: 0: Hiragana themselves follow the same layout as row 4 of JIS X 0208, but without a lead byte. Also adds several additional assignments for punctuation. Proportional Hiragana: 1-byte: 3/7: 37: 7: Katakana: 1-byte: 3/1: 31: 1: Katakana themselves follow the same layout as row 5 of JIS X 0208, but without a lead byte.
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' is a compound of kari (仮, 'borrowed; assumed; false') and na (名, 'name'), which eventually collapsed into kanna and ultimately 'kana'. [3]Today it is generally assumed that 'kana' were considered "false" kanji due to their purely phonetic nature, as opposed to mana which were "true" kanji used for their meanings.
In International Reference Version + 8-bit code for kanji, whether by the bit pattern 4/1 or by the bit pattern corresponding to the kanji set's row 3 cell 33 (10/3 12/1), the letter "A" (i.e. "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A") is represented. The standard forbids the use of the "10/3 12/1" bit pattern, in an attempt to eliminate the duplicate encoding.
JIS X 0201, the Japanese version of ISO 646 containing the base 7-bit ASCII characters (with some modifications) and 64 half-width katakana characters. JIS X 0208 , the most common kanji character set containing 6,879 characters, including 6,355 kanji and 524 other characters (one 94 by 94 plane)
Katakana; Range: U+30A0..U+30FF (96 code points) Plane: BMP: Scripts: Katakana (93 char.) Common (3 char.) Major alphabets: Japanese Ainu: Assigned: 96 code points: Unused: 0 reserved code points: Source standards: JIS X 0208: Unicode version history; 1.0.0 (1991) 90 (+90) 1.1 (1993) 94 (+4) 3.2 (2002) 96 (+2) Unicode documentation; Code chart ...