Kana

Kana;
Teep	Syllabary
Leids	Japanese, Okinawan, Ainu, Palauan
Time period	c. 800 AD tae the present
Parent systems	Oracle Bone Script Seal Script Clerical Script Regular script (Kanji) Man'yōgana Kana; ; ; ; ;
Direction	Varies
ISO 15924	Hrkt, 412
Unicode alias	Katakana or Hiragana
Unicode range	U+30A0–U+30FF
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Kana (仮名) are syllabic Japanese scripts, a pairt o the Japanese writin seestem contrastit wi the logographic Cheenese characters kent in Japan as kanji (漢字).

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