# Kana ligature

kana gojūon :
| wa | ra | ya | ma | ha | na | ta | sa | ka | a |
| wi | ri | (yi) | mi | hi | ni | chi | shi | ki | i |
| (wu) | ru | yu | mu | fu | nu | tsu | su | ku | u |
| we | re | (ye) | me | he | ne | te | se | ke | e |
| wo | ro | yo | mo | ho | no | to | so | ko | o |
| | | | n | | | | | | |
Kana modifiers and marks :
sokuonfu (gemination)
yōon (palatalization)
chōonpu (vowel lengthener)
Iteration marks
dakuten/handakuten (voiced & semi-voiced marks) :
Multi-moraic kana :
iu
kashiko
koto
sama
shite
toki
tomo
nari
mairasesoro
yori :
vte :
In the Japanese writing system kana ligatures (Japanese: 合略仮名, Hepburn: gōryaku-gana) are ligatures in the kana writing system, both hiragana and katakana. Kana such as koto (ヿ, from 事) and shite (𬼀, from 為) are not kana ligatures, but polysyllabic kana.
Hardly any kana ligatures or polysyllabic kana are represented in standard character encodings.

## History

These characters were widely used until a spelling reform of 1900 decreed that each sound (mora) would be represented by one (kana) character. They were not represented in computer character encodings until JIS X 0213:2000 (JIS2000) added yori and koto.

## List
### Hiragana ligature

| historical/Hepburn | image | character | Unicode | origin |
| かしこ/kashiko | | - | - | 𛀚しこ |
| こと/koto | | - | - | こと |
| ごと/goto | ゙ | - | - | ごと |
| さま/sama | | - | - | さ𛃅 |
| さま/sama | | - | - | さ𛃅 |
| まゐらせさふらふ/mairasesōrō | | - | - | 参らせ候ふ |
| まゐらせさふらふ/mairasesōrō | | - | - | 参らせ候ふ |
| より/yori | | ゟ | U+309F | より |

### Polysyllabic hiragana

| historical/Hepburn | image | character | Unicode | origin |
| なり/nari | | 𬼂 | U+2CF02 | 也 |

### Katakana ligature

| historical/Hepburn | character | Unicode | origin |
| トイフ/toyū | - | - | ト云 |
| トキ/toki | - | - | トキ |
| トテ/tote | - | - | トテ |
| トモ/tomo | 𪜈 | U+2A708 | トモ |
| ドモ/domo | 𪜈゙ | U+2A708 | ドモ |
| ヨリ/yori | - | - | ヨリ |

### Polysyllabic katakana

| historical/Hepburn | character | Unicode | origin |
| イフ/yū | - | - | 云 |
| コト/koto | ヿ | U+30FF | 事 |
| シテ/shite | 𬼀 | U+2CF00 | 為 |
| トキ/toki | - | - | 時 |
| ナリ/nari | 𬻿 | U+2CEFF | 也 |

## In Unicode

Character information :
| Preview | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Unicode name | HIRAGANA DIGRAPH YORI | HIRAGANA DIGRAPH YORI | KATAKANA DIGRAPH KOTO | KATAKANA DIGRAPH KOTO | CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-2A708 | CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-2A708 | CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-2CEFF | CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-2CEFF | CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-2CF00 | CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-2CF00 | CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-2CF02 | CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-2CF02 |
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 12447 | U+309F | 12543 | U+30FF | 173832 | U+2A708 | 184063 | U+2CEFF | 184064 | U+2CF00 | 184066 | U+2CF02 |
| UTF-8 | 227 130 159 | E3 82 9F | 227 131 191 | E3 83 BF | 240 170 156 136 | F0 AA 9C 88 | 240 172 187 191 | F0 AC BB BF | 240 172 188 128 | F0 AC BC 80 | 240 172 188 130 | F0 AC BC 82 |
| UTF-16 | 12447 | 309F | 12543 | 30FF | 55401 57096 | D869 DF08 | 55411 57087 | D873 DEFF | 55411 57088 | D873 DF00 | 55411 57090 | D873 DF02 |
| Numeric character reference | &#12447; | &#x309F; | &#12543; | &#x30FF; | &#173832; | &#x2A708; | &#184063; | &#x2CEFF; | &#184064; | &#x2CF00; | &#184066; | &#x2CF02; |