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A is a Japanese kana that represents the mora consisting of single vowel. The hiragana character あ is based on the sōsho style of kanji 安, while the katakana ア is from the radical of kanji 阿. In the modern Japanese system of alphabetical order, it occupies the first position of the alphabet, before い. Additionally, it is the 36th letter in Iroha, after て, before さ. The Unicode for あ is U+3042, and the Unicode for ア is U+30A2.
The chōonpu, also known as chōonkigō (長音記号), onbiki (音引き), bōbiki (棒引き), or Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark by the Unicode Consortium, is a Japanese symbol that indicates a chōon, or a long vowel of two morae in length. Its form is a horizontal or vertical line in the center of the text with the width of one kanji or kana character. It is written horizontally in horizontal text and vertically in vertical text. The chōonpu is usually used to indicate a long vowel sound in katakana writing, rarely in hiragana writing, and never in romanized Japanese. The chōonpu is a distinct mark from the dash, and in most Japanese typefaces it can easily be distinguished. In horizontal writing it is similar in appearance to, but should not be confused with, the kanji character 一 ("one").
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Hiragana is a Unicode block containing hiragana characters for the Japanese language.
Katakana is a Unicode block containing katakana characters for the Japanese and Ainu languages.
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Volume 1 of the Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (ARIB) STD-B24 standard for Broadcast Markup Language specifies, amongst other details, a character encoding for use in Japanese-language broadcasting. It was introduced on 1999-10-26. The latest revision is version 6.3 as of 2016-07-06.
Wu is a hentaigana, a variant kana or Japanese syllable.
Yi is a hentaigana, a variant kana or Japanese syllable.
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- ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ↑ "Chapter 18.4: 18.4 Hiragana and Katakana". The Unicode Standard, Version 12.0 (PDF). Mountain View, CA: Unicode, Inc. June 2018. ISBN 978-1-936213-22-1.
- ↑ Suignard, Michel (2017-06-05). "Additional repertoire for ISO/IEC 10646:2017 (5th ed.) Amendment 2.0 (WG2 N4825)" (PDF). p. 190992.
- ↑ "BabelStone Han". Babelstone Fonts. 15 March 2024. Retrieved 28 March 2024.
Small Kana Extension - 1B130..1B16F - 9 out of 9 characters - Full-width
- ↑ "TrueType font にしき的フォント『 Nishiki-teki 』Version 3.99t (2024-03-26)" (in Japanese). Umihotaru. 26 March 2024. Retrieved 28 March 2024.