Katakana is a
Unicode block
A Unicode block is one of several contiguous ranges of numeric character codes ( code points) of the Unicode character set that are defined by the Unicode Consortium for administrative and documentation purposes. Typically, proposals such as the ...
containing
katakana
is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rÅmaji). The word ''katakana'' means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana characters are derived f ...
characters for the Japanese and Ainu languages.
Block
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Katakana block:
See also
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Katakana Phonetic Extensions (Unicode block)
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Kana Extended-A (Unicode block)
Kana Extended-A is a Unicode block containing hentaigana (non-standard hiragana) and historic kana characters. Additional hentaigana characters are encoded in the Kana Supplement block.
Block
History
The following Unicode-related documents re ...
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Kana Extended-B (Unicode block)
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Kana Supplement (Unicode block)
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Small Kana Extension (Unicode block)
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Hiragana (Unicode block)
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CJK Compatibility (Unicode block)
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Enclosed CJK Letters and Months (Unicode block)
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Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms (Unicode block)
Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms is the name of a Unicode block U+FF00–FFEF, provided so that older encodings containing both halfwidth and fullwidth characters can have lossless translation to/from Unicode. It is the second-to-last block of t ...
References
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Unicode blocks
Kana