Na (kana)

na
hiragana katakana
transliteration	na
hiragana origin	奈
katakana origin	奈
spelling kana	名古屋のナ (Nagoya no na)
unicode	U+306A, U+30CA
braille

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 communicative representations

Japanese radiotelephony alphabet	Wabun code
名古屋のナ Nagoya no "Na"

Japanese Navy Signal Flag	Japanese semaphore	Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling)	Braille dots-13 Japanese Braille

• Full Braille representation

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

• Computer encodings

Character information

Preview	な		ナ		ﾅ
Unicode name	HIRAGANA LETTER NA		KATAKANA LETTER NA		HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER NA
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex	dec	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