Yo (kana)

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yo
hiragana
japanese hiragana yo
katakana
japanese katakana yo
transliterationyo
hiragana origin
katakana origin
Man'yōgana用 容 欲 夜 与 余 四 世 代 吉
spelling kana吉野のヨ Yoshino no "yo"
unicodeU+3088, U+30E8
braille⠜
Note: These Man'yōgana originally represented syllables with one of two different vowel sounds, which merged in later pronunciation

, in hiragana or in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. The hiragana is made in two strokes, while the katakana in three. Both represent [jo].

When small and preceded by an -i kana, this kana represents a palatalization of the preceding consonant sound with the [o] vowel (see yōon).[1]

Forms Rōmaji Hiragana Katakana
Normal y-
(や行 ya-gyō)
yo
you
yoo
よう, よぅ
よお, よぉ
よー
ヨウ, ヨゥ
ヨオ, ヨォ
ヨー

Stroke order[edit]

Stroke order in writing よ
Stroke order in writing よ
Stroke order in writing ヨ
Stroke order in writing ヨ
Stroke order in writing よ
Stroke order in writing ヨ

Other communicative representations[edit]

  • Full Braille representation
よ / ヨ in Japanese Braille
よ / ヨ
yo
よう / ヨー
ょ/ョ
Yōon*
゛ょ/゛ョ
Dakuten + Yōon*
゜ょ/゜ョ
Handakuten + Yōon*
⠜ (braille pattern dots-345) ⠜ (braille pattern dots-345)⠒ (braille pattern dots-25) ⠈ (braille pattern dots-4) ⠘ (braille pattern dots-45) ⠨ (braille pattern dots-46)

* The yōon characters ょ and ョ are encoded in Japanese Braille by prefixing "-o" kana (e.g. Ko, So) with a yōon braille indicator, which can be combined with the "Dakuten" or "Handakuten" braille indicators for the appropriate consonant sounds.

Character information
Preview
Unicode name HIRAGANA LETTER YO KATAKANA LETTER YO HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER YO CIRCLED KATAKANA YO
Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex dec hex
Unicode 12424 U+3088 12520 U+30E8 65430 U+FF96 13045 U+32F5
UTF-8 227 130 136 E3 82 88 227 131 168 E3 83 A8 239 190 150 EF BE 96 227 139 181 E3 8B B5
Numeric character reference よ よ ヨ ヨ ヨ ヨ ㋵ ㋵
Shift JIS[2] 130 230 82 E6 131 136 83 88 214 D6
EUC-JP[3] 164 232 A4 E8 165 232 A5 E8 142 214 8E D6
GB 18030[4] 164 232 A4 E8 165 232 A5 E8 132 49 155 48 84 31 9B 30
EUC-KR[5] / UHC[6] 170 232 AA E8 171 232 AB E8
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[7] 198 236 C6 EC 199 162 C7 A2
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[8] 199 111 C7 6F 199 228 C7 E4
Character information
Preview
Unicode name HIRAGANA LETTER SMALL YO KATAKANA LETTER SMALL YO HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER SMALL YO
Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex
Unicode 12423 U+3087 12519 U+30E7 65390 U+FF6E
UTF-8 227 130 135 E3 82 87 227 131 167 E3 83 A7 239 189 174 EF BD AE
Numeric character reference ょ ょ ョ ョ ョ ョ
Shift JIS[2] 130 229 82 E5 131 135 83 87 174 AE
EUC-JP[3] 164 231 A4 E7 165 231 A5 E7 142 174 8E AE
GB 18030[4] 164 231 A4 E7 165 231 A5 E7 132 49 151 48 84 31 97 30
EUC-KR[5] / UHC[6] 170 231 AA E7 171 231 AB E7
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[7] 198 235 C6 EB 199 161 C7 A1
Big5 (ETEN/> / HKSCS)[8] 199 110 C7 6E 199 227 C7 E3

References[edit]

  1. ^ Jim Gleeson (2013). "Contracted sounds". Japanese Hiragana: An Introductory Japanese Language Workbook. Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 9781462913978.
  2. ^ a b Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-03-08]. "Shift-JIS to Unicode".
  3. ^ a b Unicode Consortium; IBM. "EUC-JP-2007". International Components for Unicode.
  4. ^ a b Standardization Administration of China (SAC) (2005-11-18). GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set.
  5. ^ a b Unicode Consortium; IBM. "IBM-970". International Components for Unicode.
  6. ^ a b Steele, Shawn (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". Microsoft / Unicode Consortium.
  7. ^ a b Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-02-11]. "BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".
  8. ^ a b van Kesteren, Anne. "big5". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.

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