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HIRAGANA LETTER KE KATAKANA LETTER KE HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER KE HIRAGANA LETTER SMALL KE KATAKANA LETTER SMALL KE Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex dec hex dec hex Unicode: 12369: U+3051: 12465: U+30B1: 65401: U+FF79: 12438: U+3096: 12534: U+30F6 UTF-8: 227 129 145: E3 81 91: 227 130 177: E3 82 B1: 239 189 185: EF BD B9: 227 130 150: E3 ...
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). The word katakana means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana characters are derived from components or fragments of more ...
Buddhist monks who invented katakana chose to use the word order of Sanskrit and Siddham, since important Buddhist writings were written with those alphabets. [3] In an unusual set of events, although it uses Sanskrit organization (grid, with order of consonants and vowels), it also uses the Chinese order of writing (in columns, right-to-left).
く, in hiragana or ク in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora.Both represent [kɯ] and their shapes come from the kanji 久.. This kana may have a dakuten added, transforming it into ぐ in hiragana, グ in katakana and gu in Hepburn romanization.
き, in hiragana, キ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora.Both represent [ki] and are derived from a simplification of the 幾 kanji.The hiragana character き, like さ, is drawn with the lower line either connected or disconnected.
こ, in hiragana or コ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora.Both represent IPA:.The shape of these kana comes from the kanji 己.. This character may be supplemented by a dakuten; it becomes ご in hiragana, ゴ in katakana and go in Hepburn romanization.
Sa (hiragana: さ, katakana: サ) is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora.Both represent [sa].The shapes of these kana originate from 左 and 散, respectively.
transliteration: me: hiragana origin: 女: katakana origin: 女: Man'yōgana: 売 馬 面 女 梅 米 迷 昧 目 眼 海: spelling kana: 明治のメ Meiji no "me": unicode: U+3081, U+30E1