Japanese characters unicode sheet
Find Unicode encodings of various Japanese characters and with ease.
The standard for encoding and displaying Japanese characters is known as the "Japanese Industrial Standards" or JIS.
Unicode is a universal character set that includes all of Japan's writing systems, including Kanji (Chinese characters), Hiragana, Katakana, and Romaji.
Each type of script has its own range in the Unicode table:
- Basic Latin letters A-Z
- Half-width katakana
- Full-width katakana
- Hiragana from U+3040 to U+309F
- CJK Unified Ideographs aka kanji
In terms of encoding formats like UTF8 and UTF16; these allow computers to store text data using binary code while still preserving human-readable languages such as those used in Japan.
