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Ta (kana)
Character of the Japanese writing system
Ta (hiragana: た, katakana: タ) is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. Both represent [ta]. た originates from the Chinese character 太, while タ originates from 多.
01Other communicative representations
| Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code |
| 煙草のタ Tabako no "Ta" |
▄▄▄ ▄ ⓘ |
| Japanese Navy Signal Flag | Japanese semaphore | Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling) | Braille dots-135 Japanese Braille |
- Full Braille representation
| た / タ in Japanese Braille | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| た / タ ta | だ / ダ da | たあ / ター tā | だあ / ダー dā | Other kana based on Braille た | |||
| ちゃ / チャ cha | ぢゃ / ヂャ ja/dya | ちゃあ / チャー chā | ぢゃあ / ヂャー jā/dyā | ||||
| Preview | た | タ | タ | だ | ダ | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER TA | KATAKANA LETTER TA | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER TA | HIRAGANA LETTER DA | KATAKANA LETTER DA | |||||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 12383 | U+305F | 12479 | U+30BF | 65408 | U+FF80 | 12384 | U+3060 | 12480 | U+30C0 |
| UTF-8 | 227 129 159 | E3 81 9F | 227 130 191 | E3 82 BF | 239 190 128 | EF BE 80 | 227 129 160 | E3 81 A0 | 227 131 128 | E3 83 80 |
| Numeric character reference | た | た | タ | タ | タ | タ | だ | だ | ダ | ダ |
| Shift JIS | 130 189 | 82 BD | 131 94 | 83 5E | 192 | C0 | 130 190 | 82 BE | 131 95 | 83 5F |
| EUC-JP | 164 191 | A4 BF | 165 191 | A5 BF | 142 192 | 8E C0 | 164 192 | A4 C0 | 165 192 | A5 C0 |
| GB 18030 | 164 191 | A4 BF | 165 191 | A5 BF | 132 49 152 56 | 84 31 98 38 | 164 192 | A4 C0 | 165 192 | A5 C0 |
| EUC-KR / UHC | 170 191 | AA BF | 171 191 | AB BF | 170 192 | AA C0 | 171 192 | AB C0 | ||
| Big5 (non-ETEN kana) | 198 195 | C6 C3 | 199 87 | C7 57 | 198 196 | C6 C4 | 199 88 | C7 58 | ||
| Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS) | 199 70 | C7 46 | 199 187 | C7 BB | 199 71 | C7 47 | 199 188 | C7 BC | ||
| Preview | ㋟ | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | CIRCLED KATAKANA TA | |
| Encodings | decimal | hex |
| Unicode | 13023 | U+32DF |
| UTF-8 | 227 139 159 | E3 8B 9F |
| Numeric character reference | ㋟ | ㋟ |




Sources and credits
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Images, from Wikimedia Commons:
- Hiragana た stroke order animation.gif by Sirgazil, CC0
- Katakana タ stroke order animation.gif by Sirgazil, CC0
- た-bw.png by Made by me, M4RC0, using Photoshop. We are making this kind of picture following the protocol of the section : Bitmap Image (PNG), CC BY-SA 2.5
- タ-bw.png by Made by me, M4RC0, using Photoshop. We are making this kind of picture following the protocol of the section : Bitmap Image (PNG), CC BY-SA 2.0
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