Na (kana)
Character of the Japanese writing system
Na (hiragana: な, katakana: ナ) are Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. The hiragana な is made in four strokes, the katakana ナ two. Both represent [na]. 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.
01Other 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 nā | Other kana based on Braille な | |
| にゃ / ニャ nya | にゃあ / ニャー nyā | ||
| Preview | な | ナ | ﾅ | ㋤ | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||||
Sources and credits
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Images, from Wikimedia Commons:
- Hiragana な stroke order animation.gif by Sirgazil, CC0
- Katakana ナ stroke order animation.gif by Sirgazil, CC0
- な-bw.png by No machine-readable author provided. D.328 assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0
- ナ-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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