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Half-width kana

Half-width kana (半角カナ, Hankaku kana) are katakana characters displayed compressed at half their normal width (a 1:2 aspect ratio), instead of the usual square (1:1) aspect ratio. For example, the usual (full-width) form of the katakana ka is カ while the half-width form is ｶ. Additionally, hiragana may be displayed half-width on the Web or in e-books via…

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Half-width kana on the Internet

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Half-width kana

Nodes49
Edges48
Triples53
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.040816
Components1

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Half-width kana

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related to E-mail · 15
Half-width kana → Both, For, Half-width, HTML5, ISO, ISO-2022-JP, Japanese, JIS, NNTP, Roman, Shift JIS, Since, SMTP, The WHATWG, Usenet
related to history · 13
Half-width kana → As, ASCII, Chinese-based, Further, Half-width, However, In, Japanese, JIS, Latin, These, This, United States
related to Encoding · 10
Half-width kana → A0, DF, Hiragana, In, In JIS, In Shift JIS, JIS, Latin, Shift JIS, Thus
related to Confusion · 7
Half-width kana → Half-width, However, In, JIS, Latin, Shift JIS, Strictly

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half-width characters katakana kana jis used displayed 0201 kanji full-width japanese latin character see hiragana shift standard unicode encoded 0208

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Shift JISinstance ofand in other sets0.80text
Base64 can be usedinstance ofan encoding system0.80text
specified in the message using MIME.Web pagesThe problem that exists in e-mail does not exist with Web pages because HTTP accepts 8-bit characters.Howeverinstance ofan encoding system0.80text
one problem that does exist is that computer programs have difficulties determining whether to treat a character as Shift JISinstance ofan encoding system0.80text
EUC-JPinstance ofan encoding system0.80text
or UTF-8instance ofan encoding system0.80text
specified in the message using MIMEinstance ofan encoding system0.80text
JIS X 0208instance ofand associated double-byte encodings0.80text
Half-width kanarelated to ConfusionStrictly0.60section
Half-width kanarelated to ConfusionJIS0.60section
Half-width kanarelated to ConfusionIn0.60section
Half-width kanarelated to ConfusionHalf-width0.60section

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