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A (kana)

Index A (kana)

A (hiragana: あ, katakana: ア) is a Japanese kana that represents the mora consisting of single vowel cat. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 35 relations: Alphabetical order, Asahi, Big5, Character encoding, Chōonpu, Chinese character radicals, Chinese character strokes, Cursive script (East Asia), Dakuten and handakuten, Extended Unix Code, GB 18030, Headline Publishing Group, Hentaigana, Hiragana, Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set, International Components for Unicode, Iroha, Japanese Braille, Kana, Kanji, Katakana, Man'yōgana, Microsoft, Mora (linguistics), Okinawan scripts, Open front unrounded vowel, Radical 14, Romanization of Japanese, Shift JIS, Teach Yourself, Unicode, Unicode Consortium, Unified Hangul Code, Voiced pharyngeal fricative, WHATWG.

Alphabetical order

Alphabetical order is a system whereby character strings are placed in order based on the position of the characters in the conventional ordering of an alphabet.

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Asahi

Asahi (Japanese 朝日, 旭, or あさひ 'morning sun') may refer to.

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Big5

Big-5 or Big5 (t) is a Chinese character encoding method used in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau for traditional Chinese characters.

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Character encoding

Character encoding is the process of assigning numbers to graphical characters, especially the written characters of human language, allowing them to be stored, transmitted, and transformed using digital computers.

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Chōonpu

The, also known as,,, or Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark by the Unicode Consortium, is a Japanese symbol that indicates a, or a long vowel of two morae in length.

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Chinese character radicals

A radical, or indexing component, is a visually prominent component of a Chinese character under which the character is traditionally listed in a Chinese dictionary.

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Chinese character strokes

Strokes are the smallest structural units making up written Chinese characters.

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Cursive script (East Asia)

Cursive script (cǎoshū;, sōshotai;, choseo), often referred to as grass script, is a script style used in Chinese and East Asian calligraphy.

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Dakuten and handakuten

The, colloquially, is a diacritic most often used in the Japanese kana syllabaries to indicate that the consonant of a syllable should be pronounced voiced, for instance, on sounds that have undergone rendaku (sequential voicing).

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Extended Unix Code

Extended Unix Code (EUC) is a multibyte character encoding system used primarily for Japanese, Korean, and simplified Chinese (characters).

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GB 18030

GB 18030 is a Chinese government standard, described as Information Technology — Chinese coded character set and defines the required language and character support necessary for software in China.

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Headline Publishing Group

Headline Publishing Group is a British publishing brand and former company.

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Hentaigana

In the Japanese writing system, are variant forms of hiragana.

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Hiragana

is a Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana as well as kanji.

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Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set

The Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set (香港增補字符集; commonly abbreviated to HKSCS) is a set of Chinese characters – 4,702 in total in the initial release—used in Cantonese, as well as when writing the names of some places in Hong Kong (whether in written Cantonese or standard written Chinese sentences).

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International Components for Unicode

International Components for Unicode (ICU) is an open-source project of mature C/C++ and Java libraries for Unicode support, software internationalization, and software globalization.

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Iroha

The is a Japanese poem.

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Japanese Braille

Japanese Braille is the braille script of the Japanese language.

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Kana

are syllabaries used to write Japanese phonological units, morae.

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Kanji

are the logographic Chinese characters adapted from the Chinese script used in the writing of Japanese.

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Katakana

is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji).

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Man'yōgana

is an ancient writing system that uses Chinese characters to represent the Japanese language.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

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Mora (linguistics)

A mora (plural morae or moras; often symbolized μ) is a basic timing unit in the phonology of some spoken languages, equal to or shorter than a syllable.

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Okinawan scripts

Okinawan, spoken in Okinawa Island, was once the official language of the Ryukyu Kingdom.

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Open front unrounded vowel

The open front unrounded vowel, or low front unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.

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Radical 14

Radical 14 or radical cover, meaning cover, is one of 23 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 2 strokes.

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Romanization of Japanese

The romanization of Japanese is the use of Latin script to write the Japanese language.

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Shift JIS

Shift JIS (also SJIS, MIME name Shift_JIS, known as PCK in Solaris contexts) is a character encoding for the Japanese language, originally developed by the Japanese company ASCII Corporation in conjunction with Microsoft and standardized as JIS X 0208 Appendix 1.

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Teach Yourself

Teach Yourself is currently an imprint of Hodder Education and formerly a series published by the English Universities Press (a subsidiary company of Hodder & Stoughton) that specializes in self-instruction books.

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Unicode

Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard, is a text encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized.

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Unicode Consortium

The Unicode Consortium (legally Unicode, Inc.) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization incorporated and based in Mountain View, California, U.S. Its primary purpose is to maintain and publish the Unicode Standard which was developed with the intention of replacing existing character encoding schemes that are limited in size and scope, and are incompatible with multilingual environments.

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Unified Hangul Code

Unified Hangul Code (UHC), or Extended Wansung, also known under Microsoft Windows as Code Page 949 (Windows-949, MS949 or ambiguously CP949), is the Microsoft Windows code page for the Korean language.

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Voiced pharyngeal fricative

The voiced pharyngeal approximant or fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.

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WHATWG

The Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) is a community of people interested in evolving HTML and related technologies.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_(kana)

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