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Character of the Japanese writing system
na
hiragana
japanese hiragana na
katakana
japanese katakana na
transliterationna
hiragana origin
katakana origin
Man'yōgana那 男 奈 南 寧 難 七 名 魚 菜
spelling kana名古屋のナ (Nagoya no na)
unicodeU+306A, U+30CA
braille⠅
kana gojūon
warayamahanatasakaa
wiri(yi)mihinichishikii
(wu)ruyumufunutsusukuu
were(ye)mehenetesekee
woroyomohonotosokoo
n
Kana modifiers and marks
Multi-moraic kana

, in hiragana, and , in katakana, are Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. The hiragana な is made in four strokes, the katakana ナ two. Both represent . な and ナ originate from the man'yōgana 奈. な is used as part of the okurigana for the plain negative forms of Japanese verbs, and several negative forms of adjectives.

Form Rōmaji Hiragana Katakana
Normal n-
(な行 na-gyō)
na
naa
なあ, なぁ
なー
ナア, ナァ
ナー

Stroke order

Stroke order in writing な
Stroke order in writing な
Stroke order in writing ナ
Stroke order in writing ナ
Stroke order in writing な
Stroke order in writing ナ

Other communicative representations

Japanese radiotelephony alphabet Wabun code
名古屋のナ
Nagoya no "Na"
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⠅
Japanese Navy Signal Flag Japanese semaphore Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling) Braille dots-13
Japanese Braille
  • Full Braille representation
な / ナ in Japanese Braille
な / ナ
na
なあ / ナー
Other kana based on Braille
にゃ / ニャ
nya
にゃあ / ニャー
nyā
⠅ (braille pattern dots-13) ⠅ (braille pattern dots-13)⠒ (braille pattern dots-25) ⠈ (braille pattern dots-4)⠅ (braille pattern dots-13) ⠈ (braille pattern dots-4)⠅ (braille pattern dots-13)⠒ (braille pattern dots-25)
Character information
Preview
Unicode name HIRAGANA LETTER NA KATAKANA LETTER NA HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER NA CIRCLED KATAKANA NA
Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex dec hex
Unicode 12394 U+306A 12490 U+30CA 65413 U+FF85 13028 U+32E4
UTF-8 227 129 170 E3 81 AA 227 131 138 E3 83 8A 239 190 133 EF BE 85 227 139 164 E3 8B A4
Numeric character reference な な ナ ナ ナ ナ ㋤ ㋤
Shift JIS 130 200 82 C8 131 105 83 69 197 C5
EUC-JP 164 202 A4 CA 165 202 A5 CA 142 197 8E C5
GB 18030 164 202 A4 CA 165 202 A5 CA 132 49 153 51 84 31 99 33
EUC-KR / UHC 170 202 AA CA 171 202 AB CA
Big5 (non-ETEN kana) 198 206 C6 CE 199 98 C7 62
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS) 199 81 C7 51 199 198 C7 C6

References

  1. Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) . "Shift-JIS to Unicode".
  2. Unicode Consortium; IBM. "EUC-JP-2007". International Components for Unicode.
  3. Standardization Administration of China (SAC) (2005-11-18). GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set.
  4. Unicode Consortium; IBM. "IBM-970". International Components for Unicode.
  5. Steele, Shawn (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". Microsoft / Unicode Consortium.
  6. Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) . "BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".
  7. van Kesteren, Anne. "big5". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.
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