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Character information Preview す ス ｽ ㋜ Unicode name HIRAGANA LETTER SU KATAKANA LETTER SU HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER SU CIRCLED KATAKANA SU Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex dec hex Unicode: 12377: U+3059: 12473: U+30B9: 65405: U+FF7D: 13020: U+32DC UTF-8: 227 129 153: E3 81 99: 227 130 185: E3 82 B9: 239 189 189: EF BD BD: 227 139 ...
A numeric character reference refers to a character by its Universal Character Set/Unicode code point, and a character entity reference refers to a character by a predefined name. A numeric character reference uses the format &#nnnn; or &#xhhhh; where nnnn is the code point in decimal form, and hhhh is the code point in hexadecimal form.
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).
The following other wikis use this file: Usage on ar.wikipedia.org سُو (كانا) Usage on blk.wikipedia.org သု (ခန) Usage on de.wikipedia.org
The following other wikis use this file: Usage on de.wikipedia.org Hentaigana; Usage on en.wiktionary.org Appendix:Unicode/Kana Supplement 𛁏 Usage on es.wiktionary.org
Hiragana is a Unicode block containing hiragana characters for the Japanese language. Block ... (Unicode block) has a single hiragana character: U+1F200;
The hiragana symbols are also ordered in a consistent way across different keyboards. For example, the Q, W, E, R, T, Y keys correspond to た, て, い, す, か, ん (ta, te, i, su, ka, and n) respectively when the computer is used for direct hiragana input.
'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.