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Ligatures in the Kana writing system From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the Japanese writing system kana ligatures (Japanese: 合略仮名, Hepburn: gōryaku-gana) are ligatures in the kana writing system, both hiragana and katakana. Kana such as koto (ヿ, from 事) and shite (𬼀, from 為) are not kana ligatures, but polysyllabic kana.
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Hardly any kana ligatures or polysyllabic kana are represented in standard character encodings.
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These characters were widely used until a spelling reform of 1900 decreed that each sound (mora) would be represented by one (kana) character. They were not represented in computer character encodings until JIS X 0213:2000 (JIS2000) added yori and koto.
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Unicode name | HIRAGANA DIGRAPH YORI | KATAKANA DIGRAPH KOTO | CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-2A708 | CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-2CEFF | CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-2CF00 | CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-2CF02 | ||||||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 12447 | U+309F | 12543 | U+30FF | 173832 | U+2A708 | 184063 | U+2CEFF | 184064 | U+2CF00 | 184066 | U+2CF02 |
UTF-8 | 227 130 159 | E3 82 9F | 227 131 191 | E3 83 BF | 240 170 156 136 | F0 AA 9C 88 | 240 172 187 191 | F0 AC BB BF | 240 172 188 128 | F0 AC BC 80 | 240 172 188 130 | F0 AC BC 82 |
UTF-16 | 12447 | 309F | 12543 | 30FF | 55401 57096 | D869 DF08 | 55411 57087 | D873 DEFF | 55411 57088 | D873 DF00 | 55411 57090 | D873 DF02 |
Numeric character reference | ゟ | ゟ | ヿ | ヿ | 𪜈 | 𪜈 | 𬻿 | 𬻿 | 𬼀 | 𬼀 | 𬼂 | 𬼂 |
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