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Enclosed Ideographic Supplement (Unicode Block)
Enclosed Ideographic Supplement is a Unicode block containing forms of characters and words from CJK, Chinese, Japanese and Korean enclosed within or stylised as squares, brackets, or circles. It contains three such characters containing one or more kana, and many containing CJK Unified Ideographs, CJK ideographs. Many of its characters were added for compatibility with the Japanese ARIB STD B24 character set, ARIB STD-B24 standard. Six symbols from Chinese folk religion were added in Unicode version 10. Block Emoji The Enclosed Ideographic Supplement block contains fifteen emoji: U+1F201–U+1F202, U+1F21A, U+1F22F, U+1F232–U+1F23A and U+1F250–U+1F251. The block has eight Variant form (Unicode), standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the following four base characters: U+1F202, U+1F21A, U+1F22F and U+1F237. History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specifi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiragana
is a Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with ''katakana'' as well as ''kanji''. It is a phonetic lettering system. The word ''hiragana'' literally means "flowing" or "simple" kana ("simple" originally as contrasted with kanji). Hiragana and katakana are both kana systems. With few exceptions, each mora in the Japanese language is represented by one character (or one digraph) in each system. This may be either a vowel such as ''"a"'' (hiragana あ); a consonant followed by a vowel such as ''"ka"'' (か); or ''"n"'' ( ん), a nasal sonorant which, depending on the context, sounds either like English ''m'', ''n'' or ''ng'' () when syllable-final or like the nasal vowels of French language, French, Portuguese language, Portuguese or Polish language, Polish. Because the characters of the kana do not represent single consonants (except in the case of ん "n"), the kana are referred to as syllabic symbols and not alphabetic letters. Hiragana is used t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
