Na (kana)

な, in hiragana, and ナ, in katakana, are 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, なぁ なー	ナア, ナァ ナー

na
Hiragana Katakana
Transliteration	na
Hiragana origin	奈
Katakana origin	奈
Man'yōgana	那 男 奈 南 寧 難 七 名 魚 菜
Spelling kana	名古屋のナ (Nagoya no na)
Unicode	U+306A, U+30CA
Braille

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		㋤
Unicode name	HIRAGANA LETTER NA		KATAKANA LETTER NA		HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER NA		CIRCLED KATAKANA NA
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	12394	U+306A	12490	U+30CA	65413	U+FF85	13028	U+32E4
UTF-8	227 129 170	E3 81 AA	227 131 138	E3 83 8A	239 190 133	EF BE 85	227 139 164	E3 8B A4
Numeric character reference	な	な	ナ	ナ	ﾅ	ﾅ	㋤	㋤
Shift JIS[1]	130 200	82 C8	131 105	83 69	197	C5
EUC-JP[2]	164 202	A4 CA	165 202	A5 CA	142 197	8E C5
GB 18030[3]	164 202	A4 CA	165 202	A5 CA	132 49 153 51	84 31 99 33
EUC-KR[4] / UHC[5]	170 202	AA CA	171 202	AB CA
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[6]	198 206	C6 CE	199 98	C7 62
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[7]	199 81	C7 51	199 198	C7 C6