Hiragana (Unicode block)

Hiragana is a Unicode block containing hiragana characters for the Japanese language.

Hiragana
Range	U+3040..U+309F (96 code points)
Plane	BMP
Scripts	Hiragana (89 char.) Common (2 char.) Inherited (2 char.)
Major alphabets	Japanese
Assigned	93 code points
Unused	3 reserved code points
Source standards	JIS X 0208
Unicode version history
1.0.0	90 (+90)
3.2	93 (+3)
Note: [1][2]

Block

Hiragana^[1]^[2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)

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U+304x

ぁ

あ

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い

ぅ

う

ぇ

え

ぉ

お

か

が

き

ぎ

く

U+305x

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け

げ

こ

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じ

す

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せ

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た

U+306x

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ち

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つ

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て

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と

ど

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ぬ

ね

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U+307x

ば

ぱ

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べ

ぺ

ほ

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ま

み

U+308x

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め

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ゃ

や

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ゆ

ょ

よ

ら

り

る

れ

ろ

ゎ

わ

U+309x

ゐ

ゑ

を

ん

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゙

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゛

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Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 13.0 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Hiragana block:

Version	Final code points[lower-alpha 1]	Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
1.0.0	U+3041..3094, 3099..309E	90			(to be determined)
3.2	U+3095..3096, 309F	3	L2/99-238		Consolidated document containing 6 Japanese proposals, 1999-07-15
				N2092	Addition of forty eight characters, 1999-09-13
			L2/99-365		Moore, Lisa (1999-11-23), Comments on JCS Proposals
			L2/00-024		Shibano, Kohji (2000-01-31), JCS proposal revised
			L2/99-260R		Moore, Lisa (2000-02-07), "JCS Proposals", Minutes of the UTC/L2 meeting in Mission Viejo, October 26-28, 1999
			L2/00-098, L2/00-098-page5	N2195	Rationale for non-Kanji characters proposed by JCS committee, 2000-03-15
			L2/00-234	N2203 (rtf, txt)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-07-21), "8.20", Minutes from the SC2/WG2 meeting in Beijing, 2000-03-21 -- 24
			L2/00-115R2		Moore, Lisa (2000-08-08), "Motion 83-M3", Minutes Of UTC Meeting #83
			L2/00-297	N2257	Sato, T. K. (2000-09-04), JIS X 0213 symbols part-1
			L2/00-298	N2258	Sato, T. K. (2000-09-04), JIS X 0213 symbols part-2
			L2/00-342	N2278	Sato, T. K.; Everson, Michael; Whistler, Ken; Freytag, Asmus (2000-09-20), Ad hoc Report on Japan feedback N2257 and N2258
			L2/01-050	N2253	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-01-21), "7.16 JIS X0213 Symbols", Minutes of the SC2/WG2 meeting in Athens, September 2000
			L2/01-114	N2328	Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 3503, ISO/IEC 10646-1: 2000/PDAM 1, 2001-03-09
Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

See also

• Enclosed Ideographic Supplement (Unicode block) has one hiragana character: U+1F200
• Kana Supplement (Unicode block) has 1 obsolete katakana and 255 hentaigana characters
• Kana Extended-A (Unicode block) continues with additional 31 hentaigana characters
• Small Kana Extension (Unicode block)

References

1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.