Kana ligature
In the Japanese writing system kana ligatures are typographic ligatures in the kana writing system, both hiragana and katakana. These are now obsolete, and almost none are represented in standard character encodings. The only widely available ones are the hiragana and the katakana. They are also known as and.History
These characters were widely used until a spelling reform of 1900 decreed that each sound would be represented by one character. They were not represented in computer character encodings until JIS X 0213:2000 added yori and koto.
In the 21st century, in modern Internet slang, some ligatures are made using existing characters, such as 托 for キモ in 托い for and ル for ノレ in モルール for .
