Kana Suplement

Kana is a Japanese syllabic alphabet that exists in two graphic forms: Hiragana and Katakana30A0–30FF .

The two types of Kana mentioned above differ in writing: Hiragana features round characters, like these ひらがな, whereas Katakana contains angular ones カタカナ. Only a few characters look alike (the most evident similarity is found among か and カ, り and リ, せ and セ), but there are hieroglyphs that almost totally coincide, such as へ and ヘ. If we do not take into account the extension of Katakana (for the Ainu language), then both alphabets are interchangeable, which means that any text written in Hiragana can be written in Katakana and vice versa.

Hiragana is used to write the following: the changeable parts of Japanese words (Okurigana), the words themselves, as well as, often, the explanatory reading of hieroglyphs (Furigana). Today Katakana is mainly used to write words borrowed from other European languages (the so-called lexical borrowings Gayraigo).

Właściwości

Zakres	1B000–1B0FF
Znaki	256

Lista Znaków

Tabela Znaków

1AFF0–1AFFF Kana Extended-B 1B100–1B12F Kana Extended-A

0: Główna płaszczyzna wielojęzyczna

1: Opcjonalna płaszczyzna wielojęzyczna

2: Dodatkowa płaszczyzna ideograficzna

3: Trzeciorzędowa płaszczyzna ideograficzna

4-13: Nieużywana

14: Wyspecjalizowana dodatkowa płaszczyzna

15: Dodatkowy obszar do użytku prywatnego – A

16: Dodatkowy obszar do użytku prywatnego – B