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あ

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Also known as HIRAGANA LETTER A

character of the Japanese writing system

Wikidata facts

Part of
Iroha
Country of origin
Japan
Image
Hiragana letter A.svg
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Unicode character
revised Hepburn romanization
a
Commons category
Unicode code point
3042
writing system
hiragana
Unicode block
Hiragana
Unicode character name
HIRAGANA LETTER A
HTML entity
あ
stroke count
3
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Encyclopedic overview

Transliterationa Hiragana origin安 Katakana origin阿 Man'yōgana阿 安 英 足 鞅 Spelling kana朝のア (Asahi no "a")

Kana modifiers and marks

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “あ” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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