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In 1978, the JIS C 6226 2-byte character set was developed to express hiragana and kanji characters. It includes katakana characters, but their codes and layout are different from JIS X 0201. Computer manufacturers developed their own extensions of JIS X 0208 to retain compatibility with JIS X 0201.
Katakana (片仮名、カタカナ, IPA: [katakaꜜna, kataꜜkana]) is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, [2] kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji). The word katakana means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana characters are derived from components or fragments of more ...
Katakana is a Unicode block containing katakana characters for the Japanese and Ainu languages. Block. Katakana Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) ...
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.
JIS X 0201, the Japanese version of ISO 646 containing the base 7-bit ASCII characters (with some modifications) and 64 half-width katakana characters. JIS X 0208 , the most common kanji character set containing 6,879 characters, including 6,355 kanji and 524 other characters (one 94 by 94 plane)
The kanji set contains all character included in JIS X 0201's graphic character set for katakana. The kanji set and the graphic character set for Latin characters can be used together as specified in JIS X 0208 (Latin characters + 7-bit code for kanji and the Latin characters + 8-bit code for kanji).
Character information Preview ん ン ﾝ 녣 녧 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: ...
The character ''wo'', in practice normally pronounced ''o'', is preserved in only one use: as a particle. This is normally written in hiragana (を), so katakana ヲ sees only limited use. See [[Gojūon]] and the articles on each character for details. String: optional: etymological text: etymological text: text in explanatory notes. Default