title: Hiragana (Unicode block)
text: # Hiragana (Unicode block)
  
  Hiragana is a Unicode block containing hiragana characters for the Japanese language.
  
  ## Block
  
  Hiragana Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) :
  
  | | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | U+304x | | ぁ | あ | ぃ | い | ぅ | う | ぇ | え | ぉ | お | か | が | き | ぎ | く |
  | U+305x | ぐ | け | げ | こ | ご | さ | ざ | し | じ | す | ず | せ | ぜ | そ | ぞ | た |
  | U+306x | だ | ち | ぢ | っ | つ | づ | て | で | と | ど | な | に | ぬ | ね | の | は |
  | U+307x | ば | ぱ | ひ | び | ぴ | ふ | ぶ | ぷ | へ | べ | ぺ | ほ | ぼ | ぽ | ま | み |
  | U+308x | む | め | も | ゃ | や | ゅ | ゆ | ょ | よ | ら | り | る | れ | ろ | ゎ | わ |
  | U+309x | ゐ | ゑ | を | ん | ゔ | ゕ | ゖ | | | ゙ | ゚ | ゛ | ゜ | ゝ | ゞ | ゟ |
  | Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 15.0 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points |||||||||||||||||
  
  ## History
  
  The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Hiragana block:
  
  | Version | Final code points | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1.0.0 | U+3041..3094, 3099..309E | 90 | | | (to be determined) |
  | 3.2 | U+3095..3096, 309F | 3 | L2/99-238 | | Consolidated document containing 6 Japanese proposals, 1999-07-15 |
  | 3.2 | U+3095..3096, 309F | 3 | | N2092 | Addition of forty eight characters, 1999-09-13 |
  | 3.2 | U+3095..3096, 309F | 3 | L2/99-365 | | Moore, Lisa (1999-11-23), Comments on JCS Proposals |
  | 3.2 | U+3095..3096, 309F | 3 | L2/00-024 | | Shibano, Kohji (2000-01-31), JCS proposal revised |
  | 3.2 | U+3095..3096, 309F | 3 | L2/99-260R | | Moore, Lisa (2000-02-07), "JCS Proposals", Minutes of the UTC/L2 meeting in Mission Viejo, October 26-28, 1999 |
  | 3.2 | U+3095..3096, 309F | 3 | L2/00-098, L2/00-098-page5 | N2195 | Rationale for non-Kanji characters proposed by JCS committee, 2000-03-15 |
  | 3.2 | U+3095..3096, 309F | 3 | L2/00-234 | N2203 (rtf, txt) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-07-21), "8.20", Minutes from the SC2/WG2 meeting in Beijing, 2000-03-21 -- 24 |
  | 3.2 | U+3095..3096, 309F | 3 | L2/00-115R2 | | Moore, Lisa (2000-08-08), "Motion 83-M3", Minutes Of UTC Meeting #83 |
  | 3.2 | U+3095..3096, 309F | 3 | L2/00-297 | N2257 | Sato, T. K. (2000-09-04), JIS X 0213 symbols part-1 |
  | 3.2 | U+3095..3096, 309F | 3 | L2/00-298 | N2258 | Sato, T. K. (2000-09-04), JIS X 0213 symbols part-2 |
  | 3.2 | U+3095..3096, 309F | 3 | L2/00-342 | N2278 | Sato, T. K.; Everson, Michael; Whistler, Ken; Freytag, Asmus (2000-09-20), Ad hoc Report on Japan feedback N2257 and N2258 |
  | 3.2 | U+3095..3096, 309F | 3 | L2/01-050 | N2253 | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-01-21), "7.16 JIS X0213 Symbols", Minutes of the SC2/WG2 meeting in Athens, September 2000 |
  | 3.2 | U+3095..3096, 309F | 3 | L2/01-114 | N2328 | Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 3503, ISO/IEC 10646-1: 2000/PDAM 1, 2001-03-09 |
  | ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names ||||||
  