Hiragana Unicode Characters
The Hiragana script (ISO 15924 code Hira) is an official Unicode writing system defined in UAX #24.
Other Scripts:
Script vs. Block Distinction: In the Unicode Standard, a Script identifies a functional writing system and frequently spans multiple distinct blocks (e.g. Hiragana characters appear across 5 blocks). Conversely, a Block is merely a contiguous geometric range of code points that may contain characters belonging to different scripts.
Shared Characters in Script_Extensions (52)
These characters are functionally used with Hiragana, but their primary Unicode Script property is assigned to another writing system (such as Common or Inherited). In regular expressions, match both primary and shared characters using \p{scx=Hira}.
Unicode Block Distribution
Characters belonging to the Hiragana script are distributed across 5 distinct Unicode blocks.
General Category Breakdown
Typological distribution of Hiragana characters across formal Unicode general categories.
"Lo"
"Lo"
378
"Lm"
"Lm"
2
"So"
"So"
1
Unicode Version Additions
Timeline of when characters in the Hiragana script were standardized in Unicode.