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Synopsis:
    #include <mbstring.h>
    int _ismbchira( unsigned int ch );

Description:
    The _ismbchira function tests for a double-byte Hiragana character.  A
    double-byte Hiragana character is any character for which the following
    expression is true:


         0x829F <= ch <= 0x82F1

    Note:  The Japanese double-byte character set includes Kanji, Hiragana,
    and Katakana characters - both alphabetic and numeric.  Kanji is the
    ideogram character set of the Japanese character set.  Hiragana and
    Katakana are two types of phonetic character sets of the Japanese
    character set.  The Hiragana code set includes 83 characters and the
    Katakana code set includes 86 characters.

Returns:
    The _ismbchira function returns a non-zero value when the argument is a
    member of this set of characters; otherwise, zero is returned.


Example:
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <mbctype.h>
    #include <mbstring.h>

    unsigned int chars[] = {
        'A',
        0x8140, /* double-byte space */
        0x8143, /* double-byte , */
        0x8260, /* double-byte A */
        0x829F, /* double-byte Hiragana */
        0x8340, /* double-byte Katakana */
        0x837F, /* illegal double-byte character */
        0x989F, /* double-byte L2 character */
        0xA6    /* single-byte Katakana */
    };

    #define SIZE sizeof( chars ) / sizeof( unsigned int )

    void main()
      {
        int   i;

        _setmbcp( 932 );
        for( i = 0; i < SIZE; i++ ) {
          printf( "%#6.4x is %sa valid "
                "Hiragana character\n",
                chars[i],
                ( _ismbchira( chars[i] ) ) ? "" : "not " );
        }
      }

    produces the following:

    0x0041 is not a valid Hiragana character
    0x8140 is not a valid Hiragana character
    0x8143 is not a valid Hiragana character
    0x8260 is not a valid Hiragana character
    0x829f is a valid Hiragana character
    0x8340 is not a valid Hiragana character
    0x837f is not a valid Hiragana character
    0x989f is not a valid Hiragana character
    0x00a6 is not a valid Hiragana character

Classification:
    WATCOM

Systems:
    DOS, Windows, Win386, Win32, OS/2 1.x(all), OS/2-32

See Also:
    _getmbcp, _ismbcalnum, _ismbcalpha, _ismbccntrl, _ismbcdigit,
    _ismbcgraph, _ismbckata, _ismbcl0, _ismbcl1, _ismbcl2, _ismbclegal,
    _ismbclower, _ismbcprint, _ismbcpunct, _ismbcspace, _ismbcsymbol,
    _ismbcupper, _ismbcxdigit, _mbbtype, _setmbcp