Na (hiragana: な, katakana: ナ) 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.

FormRōmajiHiraganaKatakana
Normal n- (な行 na-gyō)na
naa なあ, なぁ なーナア, ナァ 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 alphabetWabun code
名古屋のナ Nagoya no "Na"
Japanese Navy Signal FlagJapanese semaphoreJapanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling)Braille dots-13 Japanese Braille
  • Full Braille representation
な / ナ in Japanese Braille
な / ナ naなあ / ナー Other kana based on Braille
にゃ / ニャ nyaにゃあ / ニャー nyā
Character information
Preview
Unicode nameHIRAGANA LETTER NAKATAKANA LETTER NAHALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER NACIRCLED KATAKANA NA
Encodingsdecimalhexdechexdechexdechex
Unicode12394U+306A12490U+30CA65413U+FF8513028U+32E4
UTF-8227 129 170E3 81 AA227 131 138E3 83 8A239 190 133EF BE 85227 139 164E3 8B A4
Numeric character referenceななナナナナ㋤㋤
Shift JIS130 20082 C8131 10583 69197C5
EUC-JP164 202A4 CA165 202A5 CA142 1978E C5
GB 18030164 202A4 CA165 202A5 CA132 49 153 5184 31 99 33
EUC-KR / UHC170 202AA CA171 202AB CA
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)198 206C6 CE199 98C7 62
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)199 81C7 51199 198C7 C6