[Icon Request] alphabet-japanese

Icon name

alphabet-japanese (suggested tags: japanese, hiragana, kana, nihongo, cjk, script, writing system)

Use cases

1. Font library app for type designers: each font style has a "Writing systems" panel listing the scripts the font supports, one row per script with an icon, the script name, the glyph coverage percentage and the number of supported languages. Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Thai and Korean rows use the existing alphabet-* icons. Japanese has no matching icon: language-hiragana and language-katakana are translation icons (a kana paired with a Latin "A", like language), so next to the single-script alphabet-* icons they read as "translate" instead of "Japanese script".
2. Filtering languages by writing system: a dropdown filters the supported languages of a font by script, with the script icon next to each option.
3. Locale switchers and i18n settings: marking the Japanese locale in a language picker, and tagging font families by supported script in type foundry catalogs.

Design ideas

A single character, consistent with alphabet-korean (가), alphabet-thai (ก) and alphabet-hebrew (א).

Suggested character: あ (hiragana a, the first kana of the syllabary). It is the most representative character of Japanese, and it is clearly distinct from Chinese (hanzi) and Korean (hangul).

The glyph already drawn in language-hiragana could be reused on its own, without the Latin "A", so it would stay consistent with the existing set.

Alternative: ア (katakana a), reusing the glyph of language-katakana.

Checklist

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• I am not requesting a brand logo and the art is not protected by copyright.
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