Hiragana

ISO 15924: HiraSyllabary2 total languages
IANA registered: 16 October 2005

Example text

いろはにほへとちりぬるをわかよたれそつねならむうゐのおくやまけふこえてあさきゆめみしゑひもせす

Rendered using a Noto web font where available; falls back to system fonts.

Writing Direction
Direction
Left-to-right
RTL
No
Vertical tradition
East Asian vertical
Source
Unicode CLDR scriptMetadata.txt + app-maintained overrides
Hiragana may be used in Japanese vertical text.
Script Properties
Family
Japanese / Kana
Geographic origin
East Asia
Usage status
Living script
OpenType tag
kana
Hiragana, a Japanese syllabary derived from cursive (sōsho) forms of Chinese characters (c. 9th century CE). Used alongside Katakana and Kanji in Japanese writing.

Related Scripts

KanaKatakanaHaniHan (Hanzi, Kanji, Hanja)

Unicode Blocks

HiraganaU+3040Kana SupplementU+1B000Kana Extended-AU+1B100Small Kana ExtensionU+1B130

4 Unicode blocks contain Hiragana characters. Browse all Unicode blocks →

The lists below count source attestation, not current or official usage. A language can appear under several scripts. Sources, denominators and limitations.

Multiple-source attestation (MAIN)
1

Japanese
jpn

Single-source attestation (AUX)
1

Central Okinawan
ryuSingle source