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2. Hiragana - Wikipedia

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   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).

3. Kana - Wikipedia

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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 ...

4. Hiragana (Unicode block) - Wikipedia

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   Code chart ∣ Web page ... (Unicode block) has a single hiragana character: U+1F200; Kana Supplement (Unicode block) has a single katakana and 255 hentaigana characters;

5. Dakuten and handakuten - Wikipedia

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   The dakuten resembles a quotation mark, while the handakuten is a small circle, similar to a degree sign, both placed at the top right corner of a kana character: U+3099 ゙ COMBINING KATAKANA-HIRAGANA VOICED SOUND MARK; U+309A ゚ COMBINING KATAKANA-HIRAGANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK; U+309B ゛ KATAKANA-HIRAGANA VOICED SOUND MARK

6. Japanese writing system - Wikipedia

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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.

7. Yi (kana) - Wikipedia

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   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 [4] (Katakana) yi Traditional kana い (Hiragana) 𛀆 [5] (Hentaigana of ...

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9. Sa (kana) - Wikipedia

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   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. Like き, the hiragana character may be written with or without linking the lower line to the rest of the character.