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  2. List of Japanese typographic symbols - Wikipedia

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    Katakana iteration mark: ヾ: 2153: 1-1-20: 30FE Katakana iteration mark with a dakuten (voiced consonant) ゝ: 2154: 1-1-21: 309D hiraganagaeshi (ひらがながえし) kurikaeshi (くりかえし) Hiragana iteration mark. For example, はは (haha) could be written はゝ. ゞ: 2136: 1-1-22: 309E Hiragana iteration mark with a dakuten (voiced ...

  3. Katakana (Unicode block) - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version ... Katakana is a Unicode block containing katakana characters for the Japanese and Ainu ... T. K. (2000-09-04), JIS X 0213 symbols ...

  4. Katakana - Wikipedia

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    Roots of katakana highlighted Japanese katakana in a 1873 textbook Katakana was developed in the 9th century (during the early Heian period ) by Buddhist monks in Nara in order to transliterate texts and works of arts from India, by taking parts of man'yōgana characters as a form of shorthand, hence this kana is so-called kata ( 片 , "partial ...

  5. Shi (kana) - Wikipedia

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    The katakana form has become increasingly popular as an emoticon in the Western world due to its resemblance to a smiling face. This character may be combined with a dakuten, forming じ in hiragana, ジ in katakana, and ji in Hepburn romanization; the pronunciation becomes /zi/ (phonetically [d͡ʑi] or [ʑi] in the middle of words).

  6. Differences between Shinjitai and Simplified characters

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    In the following lists, the characters are sorted by the radicals of the Japanese kanji. The two Kokuji 働 and 畑 in the Kyōiku Kanji List, which have no Chinese equivalents, are not listed here; in Japanese, neither character was affected by the simplifications. No simplification in either language

  7. 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.

  8. Katakana Phonetic Extensions - Wikipedia

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    Katakana Phonetic Extensions is a Unicode block containing additional small katakana characters for writing the Ainu language, in addition to characters in the Katakana block. Further small katakana are present in the Small Kana Extension block.

  9. Historical kana orthography - Wikipedia

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    While many other native Japanese words (for example, 汝 nanji archaic word for "you") with ん were once pronounced and/or written with む (mu), proper historical kana only uses む for ん in the case of the auxiliary verb, which is only used in classical Japanese, and has morphed into the volitional ~う (-u) form in modern Japanese.