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[edit] Translingual

The Hiragana script
Additional symbols
Unicode: U+3093Katakana: Hepburn romanization: n, n'Nihon-shiki romanization: n, n'Polivanov cyrillization: н, мJapanese braille:

[edit] Syllable

  1. The hiragana syllable without particular 行 (row) or 段 (section) in a gojūon table, positioned at a corner.

[edit] Japanese

Stroke order
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[edit] Etymology

Derived in the Heian period from writing the man'yōgana kanji in the cursive sōsho style.

[edit] Hiragana character

(romaji n)

  1. The /ɴ/ syllable.
  2. The forty-eighth and final character in the gojūon ordering of hiragana. The previous character is . The equivalent katakana character is .

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