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Character information Preview す ス ｽ ㋜ Unicode name HIRAGANA LETTER SU KATAKANA LETTER SU HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER SU CIRCLED KATAKANA SU Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex dec hex Unicode: 12377: U+3059: 12473: U+30B9: 65405: U+FF7D: 13020: U+32DC UTF-8: 227 129 153: E3 81 99: 227 130 185: E3 82 B9: 239 189 189: EF BD BD: 227 139 ...
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).
A numeric character reference refers to a character by its Universal Character Set/Unicode code point, and a character entity reference refers to a character by a predefined name. A numeric character reference uses the format &#nnnn; or &#xhhhh; where nnnn is the code point in decimal form, and hhhh is the code point in hexadecimal form.
The following other wikis use this file: Usage on de.wikipedia.org Hentaigana; Usage on en.wiktionary.org Appendix:Unicode/Kana Supplement 𛁏 Usage on es.wiktionary.org
The following other wikis use this file: Usage on ar.wikipedia.org سُو (كانا) Usage on blk.wikipedia.org သု (ခန) Usage on de.wikipedia.org
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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
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.