Na (kana)

na
hiragana katakana
transliteration	na
hiragana origin	奈
katakana origin	奈

な, in hiragana, or ナ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. The hiragana な is made in four strokes, the katakana ナ two. Both represent [na]. な and ナ originate from the man'yōgana 奈. な is used as part of the okurigana for the plain negative forms of Japanese verbs, and several negative forms of adjectives.

Form	Rōmaji	Hiragana	Katakana
Normal n- (な行 na-gyō)	Na	な	ナ
	Naa Nā	なあ なー	ナア ナー

Stroke order

Stroke order in writing な

Stroke order in writing ナ

Stroke order in writing な

Stroke order in writing ナ

Other representations

• Computer encodings

Character	な		ナ		ﾅ
Unicode name	HIRAGANA LETTER NA		KATAKANA LETTER NA		HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER NA
Encodings	decimal	hex	decimal	hex	decimal	hex
Unicode	12394	U+306A	12490	U+30CA	65413	U+FF85
UTF-8	227 129 170	E3 81 AA	227 131 138	E3 83 8A	239 190 133	EF BE 85
Numeric character reference	な	な	ナ	ナ	ﾅ	ﾅ
Shift JIS	130 200	82 C8	131 105	83 69	197	C5

• Braille

な / ナ in Japanese Braille
な / ナ na	なあ / ナー nā	Other kana based on Braille な
		にゃ / ニャ nya	にゃあ / ニャー nyā

• Japanese semaphore