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Summary Of: Hiragana

Hiragana and katakana are both... Hiragana are also used in words for which the kanji form is not known to the... Hiragana are also used to give the... The hiragana consist of a basic set of characters... Hiragana beginning with an... There are a few hiragana which are rarely used... The following table shows hiragana together with their... Hiragana with dakuten or handakuten follow the goj... the same hiragana is used to write the sounds... the basic hiragana used to transcribe... in hiragana and is pronounced... each normally sized hiragana symbol is pronounced individually... The forms of the hiragana originate from the... hiragana were not accepted by everyone... Thus hiragana first gained popularity among women... and other early novels by female authors used hiragana extensively or exclusively... the usage of hiragana has become mixed with... Other hiragana are known as... Hiragana occupies code points U... The Unicode hiragana block contains precomposed characters for all hiragana in the modern set... can also be produced by using a base hiragana followed by the combining dakuten and handakuten characters...

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