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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 ...
286 hentaigana characters are included in the Unicode Standard in the Kana Supplement and Kana Extended-A blocks. One character was added to Unicode version 6.0 in 2010, 𛀁 (U+1B001 HIRAGANA LETTER ARCHAIC YE which has the formal alias HENTAIGANA LETTER E-1), and the remaining 285 hentaigana characters were added in Unicode version 10.0 in ...
The shapes of characters differed with each linguist. 𛀆 and 𛄠 were just two of many glyphs. They were phonetic symbols to fill in the blanks of the gojuon table, but Japanese people did not separate them in normal writing. i Traditional kana い [3] (Hiragana) イ [3] (Katakana) yi Traditional kana い (Hiragana) 𛀆 [3] (A variant 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).
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
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The list is sorted by Japanese reading (on'yomi in katakana, then kun'yomi in hiragana), in accordance with the ordering in the official Jōyō table. This list does not include characters that were present in older versions of the list but have since been removed (勺, 銑, 脹, 錘, 匁).
Kana Extended-A is a Unicode block containing hentaigana (non-standard hiragana) and historic kana characters. Additional hentaigana characters are encoded in the Kana Supplement block. Block