The Hiragana Unicode block encompasses the characters used in the Japanese writing system known as Hiragana. This block includes 46 basic characters and additional diacritics and extended characters used for phonetic representation. Hiragana is one of the two kana syllabaries in Japanese, with the other being Katakana. It is primarily used for native Japanese words, grammatical elements, and for children learning to read and write. The Hiragana block ranges from U+3040 to U+309F in the Unicode standard.
View a range of fonts that support the Hiragana block.
Below you will find all the characters that are in the Hiragana unicode block. Currently there are 93 characters in this block.