Kana

Kana (仮名) are syllabic Japanese scripts, a pairt o the Japanese writin seestem contrastit wi the logographic Cheenese characters kent in Japan as kanji (漢字).

Kana
Teep
Syllabary
LeidsJapanese, Okinawan, Ainu, Palauan[1]
Time period
c. 800 AD tae the present
Parent systems
Oracle Bone Script
  • Seal Script
    • Clerical Script
      • Regular script (Kanji)
        • Man'yōgana
          • Kana
DirectionVaries
ISO 15924Hrkt, 412
Unicode alias
Katakana or Hiragana
Unicode range
U+30A0–U+30FF

References