Editing Hiragana (section)

== Unicode ==

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Hiragana was added to the [[Unicode]] Standard in October, 1991 with the release of version 1.0.

The Unicode block for Hiragana is U+3040–U+309F:

{{Unicode chart Hiragana}}

The Unicode hiragana block contains precomposed characters for all hiragana in the modern set, including small vowels and yōon kana for compound syllables as well as the rare ゐ ''wi'' and ゑ ''we''; the archaic 𛀁 ''ye'' is included in [[plane (Unicode)#Supplementary Multilingual Plane|plane 1]] at U+1B001 (see below). All combinations of hiragana with ''dakuten'' and ''handakuten'' used in modern Japanese are available as precomposed characters (including the rare ゔ ''vu''), and can also be produced by using a base hiragana followed by the combining dakuten and handakuten characters (U+3099 and U+309A, respectively). This method is used to add the diacritics to kana that are not normally used with them, for example applying the dakuten to a pure vowel or the handakuten to a kana not in the h-group.

Characters U+3095 and U+3096 are small か (''ka'') and small け (''ke''), respectively. U+309F is a ligature of [[Yori (kana)|より]] (''yori'') occasionally used in vertical text. U+309B and U+309C are spacing (non-combining) equivalents to the combining dakuten and handakuten characters, respectively.

Historic and variant forms of Japanese kana characters were first added to the [[Unicode]] Standard in October, 2010 with the release of version 6.0, with significantly more added in 2017 as part of Unicode 10.

The Unicode block for Kana Supplement is U+1B000–U+1B0FF, and is immediately followed by the Kana Extended-A block (U+1B100–U+1B12F). These blocks include mainly [[hentaigana]] (historic or variant hiragana):

{{Unicode chart Kana Supplement}}
{{Unicode chart Kana Extended-A}}

The Unicode block for Kana Extended-B is U+1AFF0–U+1AFFF:
{{Unicode chart Kana Extended-B}}

The Unicode block for Small Kana Extension is U+1B130–U+1B16F:

{{Unicode chart Small Kana Extension}}

In the following character sequences a kana from the /k/ row is modified by a ''handakuten'' combining mark to indicate that a syllable starts with an initial nasal, known as ''{{ill|Dakuten#Phonetic shifts|lt=bidakuon|ja|鼻濁音}}''. As of Unicode {{Unicode version|version=16.0}}, these character combinations are explicitly called out as Named Sequences:

{| class="wikitable nounderlines" style="border-collapse:collapse;background:#FFFFFF;font-size:large;text-align:center"
|+Hiragana named sequences<ref>[http://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/NamedSequences.txt Unicode Named Character Sequences Database]</ref>
|- style="background:#F8F8F8;font-size:small"
! Sequence name || colspan="2" style="width:20pt" | Codepoints || style="width:20pt" | Glyph
|-
| style="text-align:left;font-size:small;"| HIRAGANA LETTER BIDAKUON NGA || style="font-size:small;" | U+304B || style="font-size:small;" | U+309A || か゚
|-
| style="text-align:left;font-size:small;"| HIRAGANA LETTER BIDAKUON NGI || style="font-size:small;" | U+304D || style="font-size:small;" | U+309A || き゚
|-
| style="text-align:left;font-size:small;"| HIRAGANA LETTER BIDAKUON NGU || style="font-size:small;" | U+304F || style="font-size:small;" | U+309A || く゚
|-
| style="text-align:left;font-size:small;"| HIRAGANA LETTER BIDAKUON NGE || style="font-size:small;" | U+3051 || style="font-size:small;" | U+309A || け゚
|-
| style="text-align:left;font-size:small;"| HIRAGANA LETTER BIDAKUON NGO || style="font-size:small;" | U+3053 || style="font-size:small;" | U+309A || こ゚
|}