Na (kana)

na
hiragana
japanese hiragana na
katakana
japanese katakana na
transliterationna
hiragana origin
katakana origin
Man'yōgana那 男 奈 南 寧 難 七 名 魚 菜
spelling kana名古屋のナ (Nagoya no na)
unicodeU+306A, U+30CA
braille⠅

, in hiragana, and , in katakana, 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.

Form Rōmaji Hiragana Katakana
Normal n-
(な行 na-gyō)
na
naa
なあ, なぁ
なー
ナア, ナァ
ナー

Stroke order

Stroke order in writing な
Stroke order in writing な
Stroke order in writing ナ
Stroke order in writing ナ
Stroke order in writing な
Stroke order in writing ナ

Other communicative representations

  • Full Braille representation
な / ナ in Japanese Braille
な / ナ
na
なあ / ナー
Other kana based on Braille
にゃ / ニャ
nya
にゃあ / ニャー
nyā
⠅ (braille pattern dots-13) ⠅ (braille pattern dots-13)⠒ (braille pattern dots-25) ⠈ (braille pattern dots-4)⠅ (braille pattern dots-13) ⠈ (braille pattern dots-4)⠅ (braille pattern dots-13)⠒ (braille pattern dots-25)
Character information
Preview
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[1] 130 200 82 C8 131 105 83 69 197 C5
EUC-JP[2] 164 202 A4 CA 165 202 A5 CA 142 197 8E C5
GB 18030[3] 164 202 A4 CA 165 202 A5 CA 132 49 153 51 84 31 99 33
EUC-KR[4] / UHC[5] 170 202 AA CA 171 202 AB CA
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[6] 198 206 C6 CE 199 98 C7 62
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[7] 199 81 C7 51 199 198 C7 C6

References

  1. ^ Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-03-08]. "Shift-JIS to Unicode".
  2. ^ Unicode Consortium; IBM. "EUC-JP-2007". International Components for Unicode.
  3. ^ Standardization Administration of China (SAC) (2005-11-18). GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set.
  4. ^ Unicode Consortium; IBM. "IBM-970". International Components for Unicode.
  5. ^ Steele, Shawn (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". Microsoft / Unicode Consortium.
  6. ^ Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-02-11]. "BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".
  7. ^ van Kesteren, Anne. "big5". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.