Na (kana) explained

Hiragana Image:Japanese_Hiragana_kyokashotai_NA.svg
Katakana Image:Japanese_Katakana_kyokashotai_NA.svg
Transliteration:na
Hiragana Manyogana:
Katakana Manyogana:
Other Manyogana:那 男 奈 南 寧 難 七 名 魚 菜
Unicode:U+306A, U+30CA
Flag1:1
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Spelling:名古屋のナ (Nagoya no na)

Na (hiragana: な, katakana: ナ) is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. The hiragana な is made in four strokes, the katakana ナ two. Both represent pronounced as /[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

Other communicative representations

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