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Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Unicode chart Hiragana}} provides a list of Unicode code points in the Hiragana block. ... {Unicode chart ...
Hiragana; Range: U+3040..U+309F ... Hiragana is a Unicode block containing hiragana characters for the Japanese language. ... Official Unicode Consortium code chart ...
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).
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.
This template is used to display Japanese text, applying the correct code and formatting. Template parameters [Edit template data] This template prefers inline formatting of parameters. Parameter Description Type Status English text 1 The word as translated into English. Note this will sometimes be the actual Japanese word if it has been adopted into English. String optional Kanji/kana text 2 ...
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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.
The kana to kanji converter offers a list of candidate kanji writings for the input kana, and the user may use the space bar or arrow keys to scroll through the list of candidates until they reach the correct writing. On reaching the correct written form, pressing the Enter key, or sometimes the "henkan" key, ends the conversion process. This ...