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Some Japanese personal names are written in katakana. This was more common in the past, hence elderly women often have katakana names. This was particularly common among women in the Meiji and Taishō periods, when many poor, illiterate parents were unwilling to pay a scholar to give their daughters names in kanji. [8]
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).
Unicode name HIRAGANA LETTER N KATAKANA LETTER N HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER N HIRAGANA LETTER SMALL N KATAKANA LETTER SMALL N Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex dec hex dec hex Unicode: 12435: U+3093: 12531: U+30F3: 65437: U+FF9D: 110947: U+1B163: 110951: U+1B167 UTF-8: 227 130 147: E3 82 93: 227 131 179: E3 83 B3: 239 190 157: EF BE 9D: 240 ...
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.
Ri (hiragana: り, katakana: リ) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represent one mora. Both are written with two strokes and both represent the sound ⓘ. Both originate from the character 利. The Ainu language uses a small katakana ㇼ to represent a final r sound after an i sound (イㇼ ir).
U (hiragana: う, katakana: ウ) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. In the modern Japanese system of alphabetical order, they occupy the third place in the modern Gojūon (五十音) system of collating kana. In the Iroha, they occupied the 24th position, between む and ゐ. In the Gojūon chart (ordered by columns ...
Unicode name HIRAGANA LETTER MI KATAKANA LETTER MI HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER MI CIRCLED KATAKANA MI Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex dec hex Unicode: 12415: U+307F: 12511: U+30DF: 65424: U+FF90: 13039: U+32EF UTF-8: 227 129 191: E3 81 BF: 227 131 159: E3 83 9F: 239 190 144: EF BE 90: 227 139 175: E3 8B AF Numeric character reference ...
Both hiragana and katakana are made in two strokes and represent [nɯ]. They are both derived from the Chinese character 奴. They are both derived from the Chinese character 奴. In the Ainu language , katakana ヌ can be written as small ㇴ to represent a final n, and is interchangeable with the standard katakana ン.