Katakana is the non-cursive
syllabary used to write non-Japanese words
phonetically in
Japanese. Is is also used to write Japanese words with
visual emphasis. Katakana
syllables are phonetically
equivalent to corresponding
Hiragana syllables.
Katakana has two characters,
U+30F5 ヵ Katakana letter small ka
and
U+30F6 ヶ Katakana letter small ke,
that have no direct correspondent in Hiragana; they are used in special Japanese spelling conventions; for example, the spelling of place names that include archaic Japanese connective particles.
U+30FB ・ Katakana middle dot is used to separate words when writing non-Japanese phrases.
U+30FC ー Katakana Hiragana prolonged sound mark
is used predominantly with Katakana and occasionally with Hiragana to denote a lengthened vowel of the previously written symbol.
The two iteration marks
U+30FD ヽ Katakana iteration mark
and
U+30FE ヾ Katakana voiced iteration mark
serve the same function in Katakana writing that the two Hiragana iteration marks serve in Hiragana writing.
With all due respect to liveforever's excellent write-up, the code listing is incomplete, and so I will include the complete code block below.
Unicode's
Katakana code block reserves the
96 code points from U+30A0 to U+30FF, of which all 96 are currently assigned.
Hiragana <-- Katakana --> Bopomofo
Number of characters added in each version of the Unicode standard :
Unicode 1.1 : 94
Unicode 3.2 : 2
Number of characters in each General Category :
Letter, Modifier Lm : 3
Letter, Other Lo : 91
Punctuation, Dash Pd : 1
Punctuation, Other Po : 1
Number of characters in each Bidirectional Category :
Left To Right L : 94
Other Neutral ON : 2
The columns below should be interpreted as :
- The Unicode code for the character
- The character in question
- The Unicode name for the character
- The Unicode General Category for the character
- The Unicode Bidirectional Category for the character
- The Unicode version when this character was added
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Katakana
Katakana punctuation
- U+30A0 ゠ Katakana Hiragana double hyphen Pd ON 3.2
- ref U+003D = equals sign (Basic Latin)
Based on JIS X 0208
- U+30A1 ァ Katakana letter small a Lo L 1.1
- U+30A2 ア Katakana letter A Lo L 1.1
- U+30A3 ィ Katakana letter small i Lo L 1.1
- U+30A4 イ Katakana letter I Lo L 1.1
- U+30A5 ゥ Katakana letter small u Lo L 1.1
- U+30A6 ウ Katakana letter U Lo L 1.1
- U+30A7 ェ Katakana letter small e Lo L 1.1
- U+30A8 エ Katakana letter E Lo L 1.1
- U+30A9 ォ Katakana letter small o Lo L 1.1
- U+30AA オ Katakana letter O Lo L 1.1
- U+30AB カ Katakana letter ka Lo L 1.1
- U+30AC ガ Katakana letter ga Lo L 1.1
- U+30AD キ Katakana letter ki Lo L 1.1
- U+30AE ギ Katakana letter gi Lo L 1.1
- U+30AF ク Katakana letter ku Lo L 1.1
- U+30B0 グ Katakana letter gu Lo L 1.1
- U+30B1 ケ Katakana letter ke Lo L 1.1
- U+30B2 ゲ Katakana letter ge Lo L 1.1
- U+30B3 コ Katakana letter ko Lo L 1.1
- U+30B4 ゴ Katakana letter go Lo L 1.1
- U+30B5 サ Katakana letter sa Lo L 1.1
- U+30B6 ザ Katakana letter za Lo L 1.1
- U+30B7 シ Katakana letter si Lo L 1.1
- aka shi
- U+30B8 ジ Katakana letter zi Lo L 1.1
- aka ji (not unique)
- U+30B9 ス Katakana letter su Lo L 1.1
- U+30BA ズ Katakana letter zu Lo L 1.1
- U+30BB セ Katakana letter se Lo L 1.1
- U+30BC ゼ Katakana letter ze Lo L 1.1
- U+30BD ソ Katakana letter so Lo L 1.1
- U+30BE ゾ Katakana letter zo Lo L 1.1
- U+30BF タ Katakana letter ta Lo L 1.1
- U+30C0 ダ Katakana letter da Lo L 1.1
- U+30C1 チ Katakana letter ti Lo L 1.1
- aka chi
- U+30C2 ヂ Katakana letter di Lo L 1.1
- aka ji (not unique)
- U+30C3 ッ Katakana letter small tu Lo L 1.1
- aka small tsu
- U+30C4 ツ Katakana letter tu Lo L 1.1
- aka tsu
- U+30C5 ヅ Katakana letter du Lo L 1.1
- aka zu (not unique)
- U+30C6 テ Katakana letter te Lo L 1.1
- U+30C7 デ Katakana letter de Lo L 1.1
- U+30C8 ト Katakana letter to Lo L 1.1
- U+30C9 ド Katakana letter do Lo L 1.1
- U+30CA ナ Katakana letter na Lo L 1.1
- U+30CB ニ Katakana letter ni Lo L 1.1
- U+30CC ヌ Katakana letter nu Lo L 1.1
- U+30CD ネ Katakana letter ne Lo L 1.1
- U+30CE ノ Katakana letter no Lo L 1.1
- U+30CF ハ Katakana letter ha Lo L 1.1
- U+30D0 バ Katakana letter ba Lo L 1.1
- U+30D1 パ Katakana letter pa Lo L 1.1
- U+30D2 ヒ Katakana letter hi Lo L 1.1
- U+30D3 ビ Katakana letter bi Lo L 1.1
- U+30D4 ピ Katakana letter pi Lo L 1.1
- U+30D5 フ Katakana letter hu Lo L 1.1
- aka fu
- U+30D6 ブ Katakana letter bu Lo L 1.1
- U+30D7 プ Katakana letter pu Lo L 1.1
- U+30D8 ヘ Katakana letter he Lo L 1.1
- U+30D9 ベ Katakana letter be Lo L 1.1
- U+30DA ペ Katakana letter pe Lo L 1.1
- U+30DB ホ Katakana letter ho Lo L 1.1
- U+30DC ボ Katakana letter bo Lo L 1.1
- U+30DD ポ Katakana letter po Lo L 1.1
- U+30DE マ Katakana letter ma Lo L 1.1
- U+30DF ミ Katakana letter mi Lo L 1.1
- U+30E0 ム Katakana letter mu Lo L 1.1
- U+30E1 メ Katakana letter me Lo L 1.1
- U+30E2 モ Katakana letter mo Lo L 1.1
- U+30E3 ャ Katakana letter small ya Lo L 1.1
- U+30E4 ヤ Katakana letter ya Lo L 1.1
- U+30E5 ュ Katakana letter small yu Lo L 1.1
- U+30E6 ユ Katakana letter yu Lo L 1.1
- U+30E7 ョ Katakana letter small yo Lo L 1.1
- U+30E8 ヨ Katakana letter yo Lo L 1.1
- U+30E9 ラ Katakana letter ra Lo L 1.1
- U+30EA リ Katakana letter ri Lo L 1.1
- U+30EB ル Katakana letter ru Lo L 1.1
- U+30EC レ Katakana letter re Lo L 1.1
- U+30ED ロ Katakana letter ro Lo L 1.1
- U+30EE ヮ Katakana letter small wa Lo L 1.1
- U+30EF ワ Katakana letter wa Lo L 1.1
- U+30F0 ヰ Katakana letter wi Lo L 1.1
- U+30F1 ヱ Katakana letter we Lo L 1.1
- U+30F2 ヲ Katakana letter wo Lo L 1.1
- U+30F3 ン Katakana letter N Lo L 1.1
- U+30F4 ヴ Katakana letter vu Lo L 1.1
- U+30F5 ヵ Katakana letter small ka Lo L 1.1
- U+30F6 ヶ Katakana letter small ke Lo L 1.1
- U+30F7 ヷ Katakana letter va Lo L 1.1
- U+30F8 ヸ Katakana letter vi Lo L 1.1
- U+30F9 ヹ Katakana letter ve Lo L 1.1
- U+30FA ヺ Katakana letter vo Lo L 1.1
Conjunction and length marks
- U+30FB ・ Katakana middle dot Po ON 1.1
- ref U+00B7 · middle dot (Latin-1 Supplement)
- U+30FC ー Katakana Hiragana prolonged sound mark Lm L 1.1
- ref U+2014 — em dash (General Punctuation)
Iteration marks
- U+30FD ヽ Katakana iteration mark Lm L 1.1
- U+30FE ヾ Katakana voiced iteration mark Lm L 1.1
Vertical form digraph
- U+30FF ヿ Katakana digraph koto Lo L 3.2
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