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Noto Serif JP is a modulated (“serif”) design for the
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<em>Japanese</em> language and other languages used in Japan. It supports
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<em>Hiragana</em>, <em>Katakana</em>, <em>Kanji</em>,
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<em>Latin, Cyrillic, Greek</em> and <em>Hangul</em>.
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Noto Serif CJK JP contains 65,535 glyphs, 25 OpenType features, and supports
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43,029 characters from 53 Unicode blocks: CJK Unified Ideographs, Hangul
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Syllables, CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A, CJK Unified Ideographs
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Extension B, CJK Compatibility Ideographs, Hangul Jamo, CJK Compatibility,
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Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms, Kangxi Radicals, Enclosed CJK Letters and
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Months, Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement, Box Drawing, CJK Radicals
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Supplement, CJK Unified Ideographs Extension E, Katakana, Hangul Compatibility
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Jamo, Hiragana, Latin Extended Additional, Latin-1 Supplement, Basic Latin,
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Enclosed Alphanumerics, Mathematical Operators, Hangul Jamo Extended-B,
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Cyrillic, Enclosed Ideographic Supplement, CJK Symbols and Punctuation,
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Miscellaneous Symbols, Greek and Coptic, CJK Unified Ideographs Extension C,
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CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement, Bopomofo, Geometric Shapes, CJK
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Strokes, General Punctuation, CJK Unified Ideographs Extension D, Block
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Elements, CJK Compatibility Forms, Latin Extended-A, Hangul Jamo Extended-A,
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Bopomofo Extended, Miscellaneous Technical, Small Form Variants, Arrows, Latin
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Extended-B, Letterlike Symbols, Katakana Phonetic Extensions, Kanbun,
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Ideographic Description Characters, Vertical Forms, Dingbats, Spacing Modifier
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Letters, Alphabetic Presentation Forms, Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows.
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<h3>Supported writing systems</h3>
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<h4>Japanese Kanji</h4>
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Japanese Kanji (<span class="autonym">漢字</span>) is an East Asian
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logo-syllabary, written left-to-right (126 million users). Used together with
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the Hiragana and Katakana syllabaries in Japan for the Japanese language.
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Noun, verb, adjective and some adverb stems use kanji (the most basic set is
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2,136). Grammatical elements use Hiragana, loan words and emphasis use
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Katakana. Kanji is primarily derived from the traditional Chinese Han
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characters. Read more on
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>Unicode</a
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>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_15924:Jpan">Wikipedia</a>,
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>Wiktionary</a
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>, <a href="https://r12a.github.io/scripts/links?iso=Jpan">r12a</a>.
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<h4>Hangul</h4>
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Hangul (Hangeul, <span class="autonym">한글</span>, Chosŏn'gŭl,
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<span class="autonym">조선글</span>) is an East Asian script, written
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vertically right-to-left and horizontally left-to-right (79 million users).
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Used for the Korean language. Created in 1446 by King Sejong the Great (Sejong
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of Joseon) as a simpler, phonetic alternative to using Chinese hanja for
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Korean. Not universally accepted for centuries, suppressed by Japanese
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colonial authorities. Since 1945 the standard script for Korean. The 51 basic
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letters (jamo) are grouped into syllable blocks depending on their position in
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the spoken syllable. Read more on
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<a href="https://scriptsource.org/scr/Hang">ScriptSource</a>,
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>Unicode</a
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>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_15924:Hang">Wikipedia</a>,
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>, <a href="https://r12a.github.io/scripts/links?iso=Hang">r12a</a>.
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Latin (Roman) is a European bicameral alphabet, written left-to-right. The
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most popular writing system in the world. Used for over 3,000 languages
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including Latin and Romance languages (Italian, French, Portuguese, Spanish
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and Romanian), Germanic languages (English, Dutch, German, Nordic languages),
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Finnish, Malaysian, Indonesian, Filipino, Visayan languages, Turkish,
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Azerbaijani, Polish, Somali, Vietnamese, and many others. Derived from Western
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Greek, attested in Rome in the 7th century BCE. In the common era, numerous
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European languages adopted the Latin script along with Western Christian
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religion, the script disseminated further with European colonization of the
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Americas, Australia, parts of Asia, Africa and the Pacific. New letters,
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ligatures and diacritical marks were gradually added to represent the sounds
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of various languages. Read more on
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<a href="https://r12a.github.io/scripts/links?iso=Latn">r12a</a>.
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<h4>Katakana</h4>
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Katakana (<span class="autonym">片仮名、カタカナ</span>) is an East Asian
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syllabary, written vertically right-to-left and horizontally left-to-right
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(126 million users). Used in Japan for Japanese, Ryukyuan, Ainu and Palauan,
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and formerly for Taiwanese Hokkien. Katakana is used for transcription of
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foreign-language words into Japanese, for the writing of loan words, for
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emphasis, to represent onomatopoeia, for technical and scientific terms, for
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names of plants, animals and minerals, and often for names of Japanese
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companies. Read more on
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<h4>Hiragana</h4>
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Hiragana (<span class="autonym">平仮名, ひらがな</span>) is an East Asian
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syllabary, written vertically right-to-left and horizontally left-to-right
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(120 million users). Used in Japan for Japanese and the Ryukyuan languages.
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Hiragana is used to write okurigana (kana suffixes following a kanji root, for
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example to inflect verbs and adjectives), various grammatical and function
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words including particles, as well as miscellaneous other native words for
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which there are no kanji or whose kanji form is obscure or too formal for the
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writing purpose. Read more on
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>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_15924:Hira">Wikipedia</a>,
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>Wiktionary</a
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<h4>Emoji symbols</h4>
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Emoji symbols are pictograms, logograms, ideograms and smileys used in
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electronic messages and web pages. Their primary function is to fill in
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emotional cues otherwise missing from typed conversation. They are typically
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rendered as multi-color characters. Read more on
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<a href="https://r12a.github.io/scripts/links?iso=Zsye">r12a</a>.
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<h4>Bopomofo</h4>
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Bopomofo (<span class="autonym">注音符號, 注音符号, ㄅㄆㄇㄈ</span>) is an
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East Asian syllabary, written left-to-right. Developed in 1913 in China to be
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used for Mandarin Chinese transliteration alongside the Latin-based Wade–Giles
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system. Also called Mandarin Phonetic Symbols or Zhuyin (注音). Bopomofo is an
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official transliteration system in Taiwan, used in dictionaries, books,
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newspapers and journals to annotate the Taiwanese pronunciation of Chinese Han
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characters, and in electronic input methods. Largely replaced by Pinyin
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romanization in the People’s Republic of China. Also used as the primary
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script for Taiwan’s minority languages like Atayal, Taroko, Paiwan and Yami.
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Has 21 onset consonants, 16 rhymes, and 4 tone marks. Read more on
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>, <a href="https://r12a.github.io/scripts/links?iso=Bopo">r12a</a>.
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<h4>Cyrillic</h4>
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Cyrillic is a bicameral alphabet originating in Europe, written left-to-right
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(250 million users). Used for various languages across Eurasia and is used as
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the national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic and Iranic-speaking
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countries in Southeastern Europe, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia,
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North Asia and East Asia, including Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian,
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Ukrainian, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Kazakh, Tajik, Kyrgyz, Bashkort, Chechen,
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Chuvash, Avar, Dargwa, Kabardian, Karakalpak, Kumyk, Lezgi, Ossetic, Pontic,
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Yakut, Buriat and many others. Created in the 9th century. Traditionally
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attributed to Saint Cyril, a monk from Thessaloniki working in Bulgaria, after
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earlier creation of the Glagolitic script. Sometimes attributed to Clement of
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Ohrid, a student of Saint Cyril’s. Initially used for Old Church Slavonic.
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Reformed in 1708 by Russian tsar Peter the Great. Extended by the Soviet Union
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in the 20th century to write over 50 languages throughout Eastern Europe and
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Asia (some of those languages switched to Latin after 1991). Read more on
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>Wiktionary</a
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<h4>Greek</h4>
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Greek (<span class="autonym">Ελληνικά</span>) is a European bicameral
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alphabet, written left-to-right (11 million users). Used to write the Greek
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language since the 8th century BCE. Also used to write other languages like
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Urum, Albanian Tosk, and Balkan Gagauz Turkish. Some symbols are also used in
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scientific notation. Derived from Phoenician. First “true alphabet”, with
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distinct letters for consonants and vowels. Standardized in the 4th century
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BCE by Eucleides. Has 24 letters. Some letter variants (sigma: σ/ς) have
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positional significance in the Greek language, other variants only differ in
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meaning in scientific notation (e.g. pi: π/ϖ). The Greek language used to be
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written in polytonic spelling, with three accents on vowels. In 1982, Greece
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introduced monotonic spelling with a single diacritic. Needs software support
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for complex text layout (shaping). Read more on
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<a href="https://scriptsource.org/scr/Grek">ScriptSource</a>,
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<a href="https://r12a.github.io/scripts/links?iso=Grek">r12a</a>.
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