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hiragana

Japanese syllabary
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Summary

hiragana is a natural writing system[1]. hiragana ranks in the top 3% of natural writing system entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (23,552 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Creator: Kūkai[3]
  • Instance of: syllabary[4], unicase alphabet[5]
  • Based on: sōgana[6]
  • Subclass of: kana[7]
  • Part of: kana[8]
  • Has use: Japanese[9]
  • Commons category: Hiragana[10]
  • Country of origin: Japan[11]
  • Inception: 800[12]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Hiragana[13], Category:Hiragana script[14]
  • Commons gallery: Hiragana[15]
  • Facet of: Japanese[16], Ryukyuan[17]
  • Script directionality: vertical right-to-left[18], left-to-right[19]
  • Stack Exchange tag: https://japanese.stackexchange.com/tags/hiragana[20]
  • Native label: 平仮名[21]
  • Different from: Hiragana[22]
  • Name: Hiragana[23]
  • Has part(s) of the class: そ[24]
  • Unicode range: U+3041-3096,U+309D-309F,U+1B001-1B11F,U+1B123,U+1B132,U+1B150-1B152,U+1F200[25]

Why It Matters

hiragana has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] hiragana is known by 34 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]

Related Entities

Japan Kūkai Sivas

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [27] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 22d ago · Drmccreedy · 2026-09-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Unicode range → U+3041-3096,U+309D-309F,U+1B001-1B11F,U+1B123,U+1B132,U+1B15
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Unicode range: U+3041-3096,U+309D-309F,U+1B001-1B11F,U+1B123,U+1B132,U+1B150-1B152,U+1F200"
  2. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ Yso id: 25067, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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