One of my long term goals is to learn the Hawaiian language. I know a number of words and I studied the pronunciation years ago, so I’m not terrible with pronunciation.
Hawaiʻ i is not the same as Hawa’i or Hawaii.
As I start writing more Hawaiian words (including Hawaiʻ i), I want them to be correct. The ʻ , or ʻokina, is not an apostrophe, displayed as ‘. I won’t go into the details of the language here, but know there is a difference. Just as WordPress has a capital p and is not written Wordpress, Hawaiʻ i is not the same as Hawaii or Hawai’i.
Below is a chart of the letters in case you need to use them on your own site.
Letters | Hex Code | Entity |
ʻ (ʻOkina) | ʻ | |
Ā | Ā | Ā |
ā | ā | ā |
Ē | Ē | Ē |
ē | ē | ē |
Ī | Ī | Ī |
ī | ī | ī |
Ō | Ō | Ō |
ō | ō | ō |
Ū | Ū | Ū |
ū | ū | ū |
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