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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.
This template shows a table of katakana syllabograms. Usually, it would be used without parameters. Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status legend legend Explanation of colors used Default {{color box|{{{obsolete color}}}|Grey background}} indicates obsolete characters. String optional gojuon header color gojuon header color background color for header cells ...
The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana.Kana itself consists of a pair of syllabaries: hiragana, used primarily for native or naturalized Japanese words and grammatical elements; and katakana, used primarily for foreign words and names, loanwords, onomatopoeia, scientific names, and sometimes for emphasis.
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
'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.
Katakana (片仮名、カタカナ, IPA: [katakaꜜna, kataꜜkana]) is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, [2] kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji).
Hiragana, the main Japanese syllabic writing system, derived from a cursive form of man'yōgana, a system where Chinese ideograms were used to write sounds without regard to their meaning. Originally, the same syllable (more precisely, mora ) could be represented by several more-or-less interchangeable kanji, or different cursive styles of the ...
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 ...