This has always been a question of mine as a learn Japanese. I’m a bit of math nerd and engineer so I see stuff like the Roman alphabet and can deduce that the characters are all basically made up of straight lines and can essentially be all placed in the constraints of a rectangular box similar to the 日kana.
But hiragana in particular has sooooo many loosely goosey curls and flips and twists so it makes me wonder, who decided or who is to say exactly where these curls and loops start and stop? Is there some vector database in the Japanese government somewhere that is the approved authority on the exact dimensions of all the kana? Am I even making sense?? （＾◇＾）
by kojitsuke