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Hiragana (平仮名, ひらがな, IPA: [çiɾaɡaꜜna, çiɾaɡana(ꜜ)]) is a Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana as well as kanji. It is a phonetic lettering system. The word hiragana means "common" or "plain" kana (originally also "easy", as contrasted with kanji). [1] [2] [3]
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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.
The word katakana means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana characters are derived from components or fragments of more complex kanji. Katakana and hiragana are both kana systems. With one or two minor exceptions, each syllable (strictly mora) in the Japanese language is represented by one character or kana in each system.
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; Small Kana Extension (Unicode block) has four hiragana characters: U+1B132 and U+1B150–U+ ...
Both hiragana and katakana are made in two strokes and represent [nɯ]. They are both derived from the Chinese character 奴. They are both derived from the Chinese character 奴. In the Ainu language , katakana ヌ can be written as small ㇴ to represent a final n, and is interchangeable with the standard katakana ン.
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 ...
In the Ainu language, the katakana ト can be written with a handakuten (which can be entered in a computer as either one character (ト゚) or two combined characters (ト゜) to represent the sound [tu], and is interchangeable with the katakana ツ゚.