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Japanese Characters

The letters and characters of Japanese written in the Japanese script, in order — every standard character with its name and codepoint, the additional and punctuation sets, and exactly how many fonts include them. About 117,608,755 people read or write it across 3 countries.

Standard characters

The minimal set of characters required for Japanese — the language's alphabet, in its traditional order. Tap a character to copy it; each name opens the full character page.

Additional Characters

Used for foreign words, names and technical terms, and older forms of the language.

Punctuation characters

The marks used to separate sentences and to clarify meaning.