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Talk: Hiragana (Unicode block) ... Printable version; In other projects ... there is an historic alphabetization that is not reflected in the code chart order at all.
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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).
Printable version; In other projects ... Code chart ∣ Web page ... (Unicode block) has four hiragana characters: U+1B132 and U+1B150–U+1B152;
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The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Japanese language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.
Code chart ∣ Web page Note : [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Small Kana Extension is a Unicode block containing additional small variants for the Hiragana and Katakana syllabaries, [ 3 ] in addition to those in the Hiragana , Katakana and Katakana Phonetic Extensions blocks.