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Katakana is a Unicode block containing katakana characters for the Japanese and Ainu ... Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) ... 1. ^ As of Unicode version 16.0:
As a particle, it is usually written in hiragana (を) and the katakana form, ヲ, is almost obsolete. A small version of the katakana for ya, yu or yo (ャ, ュ or ョ, respectively) may be added to katakana ending in i. This changes the i vowel sound to a glide (palatalization) to a, u or o, e.g. キャ (ki + ya) /kja/.
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.
Based upon Table hiragana.jpg. ... under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version ... Japanese/Hirigana; Japanese/Hiragana;
Code chart ∣ Web page Note : [ 1 ] [ 2 ] 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.
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
Hiragana beginning with an h (or f) sound can also add a handakuten marker ( ゜) changing the h (f) to a p. For example, は (ha) becomes ぱ (pa). A small version of the hiragana for ya, yu, or yo (ゃ, ゅ or ょ respectively) may be added to hiragana ending in i. This changes the i vowel sound to a glide (palatalization) to a, u or o.
I (い in hiragana or イ in katakana) is one of the Japanese kana each of which represents one mora. い is based on the sōsho style of the kanji character 以, and イ is from the radical (left part) of the kanji character 伊. In the modern Japanese system of sound order, it occupies the second position of the mora chart, between あ and う.