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- The table below displays the encodings for the Japanese Kana (syllabic
- characters) that are built into the GNU libplot library and the GNU
- plotting utilities based on it, such as `graph'. They were digitized by
- Dr. Allen V. Hershey of the U.S. Naval Surface Weapons Center (Dahlgren,
- VA) in the mid-1960s. For details, see his technical report "Calligraphy
- for Computers". (Available from the U.S. National Technical Information
- Service at +1 703 487 4650; ask for item number AD662398.)
- These Kana are part of the HersheyEUC font, which is employed for drawing
- multibyte Japanese text strings. But you may also use these Kana while
- drawing text strings in any other Hershey font, by inserting the
- appropriate escape sequences. For example, you may label in Kana the axes
- of a graph prepared with `graph'.
- There are 83 Hiragana (cursive characters) and 86 Katakana (block
- characters). The indexing of the Kana is specified in the JIS X0208
- standard. In that standard the Hiragana appear as 0x2421..0x2473 and the
- Katakana as 0x2521..0x2576. Here `0x' means that the number that follows
- is in base 16, or hexadecimal. For full information on the JIS standard,
- see "Understanding Japanese Information Processing", by Ken Lunde
- (O'Reilly, 1993).
- The Hiragana and Katakana are indexed in the table below as 0x21..0x73 and
- 0x21..0x76, respectively. A transliteration of each Kana is included,
- according to the Hepburn system. For example, the Kana `ka' is listed as
- 0x2b. The corresponding Hiragana would be 0x242b, and the corresponding
- Katakana would be 0x252b.
- To draw Hiragana `ka', you would use the escape sequence "\#J242b". To
- draw Katakana `ka', you would use the escape sequence "\#J252b". These
- escape sequences would be valid whenever the current font is a Hershey font
- other than HersheyEUC. By using the table below, you should find it easy
- to draw a phonetic representation of most Japanese words, syllable by
- syllable.
- You should be aware that in Japanese, many words are normally written with
- ideographic characters (Kanji) rather than Kana. However, any Japanese
- word may be rendered (possibly inelegantly) in terms of Kana. For example,
- "Mitsubishi" would be mi-tsu-bi-shi, i.e., "\#J245f\#J2444\#J2453\#J2437"
- in terms of Hiragana.
- You are cautioned that there are some special rules for combinations of
- sounds, e.g. consonant + diphthong. The `small' Kana are used for such
- combinations. Also, the `small tsu' Kana before a Kana beginning with the
- consonant k, s, t, or p is interpreted not as a syllable, but as a sign
- that that consonant should be doubled.
- Code Kana transliteration
- ---- --------------------
-
- 0x21 a [small]
- 0x22 a
- 0x23 i [small]
- 0x24 i
- 0x25 u [small]
- 0x26 u
- 0x27 e [small]
- 0x28 e
- 0x29 o [small]
- 0x2a o
- 0x2b ka
- 0x2c ga
- 0x2d ki
- 0x2e gi
- 0x2f ku
- 0x30 gu
- 0x31 ke
- 0x32 ge
- 0x33 ko
- 0x34 go
- 0x35 sa
- 0x36 za
- 0x37 shi
- 0x38 ji
- 0x39 su
- 0x3a zu
- 0x3b se
- 0x3c ze
- 0x3d so
- 0x3e zo
- 0x3f ta
- 0x40 da
- 0x41 chi
- 0x42 dji
- 0x43 tsu [small]
- 0x44 tsu
- 0x45 dzu
- 0x46 te
- 0x47 de
- 0x48 to
- 0x49 do
- 0x4a na
- 0x4b ni
- 0x4c nu
- 0x4d ne
- 0x4e no
- 0x4f ha
- 0x50 ba
- 0x51 pa
- 0x52 hi
- 0x53 bi
- 0x54 pi
- 0x55 fu
- 0x56 bu
- 0x57 pu
- 0x58 he
- 0x59 be
- 0x5a pe
- 0x5b ho
- 0x5c bo
- 0x5d po
- 0x5e ma
- 0x5f mi
- 0x60 mu
- 0x61 me
- 0x62 mo
- 0x63 ya [small]
- 0x64 ya
- 0x65 yu [small]
- 0x66 yu
- 0x67 yo [small]
- 0x68 yo
- 0x69 ra
- 0x6a ri
- 0x6b ru
- 0x6c re
- 0x6d ro
- 0x6e wa [small]
- 0x6f wa
- 0x70 wi
- 0x71 we
- 0x72 wo
- 0x73 n
- KATAKANA only:
- 0x74 vu
- 0x75 ka [small]
- 0x76 ke [small]
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