よ

Yo (kana)

Yo (kana)

Character of the Japanese writing system

よ, in hiragana or ヨ 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].

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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]

In mathematics, よ is sometimes used to represent the Yoneda embedding.[2]

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Stroke order

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

Other communicative representations

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* 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.

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References

  1. [1]
    Jim Gleeson (2013). "Contracted sounds". Japanese Hiragana: An Introductory Japanese Language Workbook. Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 9781462913978.
  2. [2]
    "Yoneda embedding". nLab. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
  3. [3]
    Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-03-08]. "Shift-JIS to Unicode".
  4. [4]
    Unicode Consortium; IBM. "EUC-JP-2007". International Components for Unicode.
  5. [5]
    Standardization Administration of China (SAC) (2005-11-18). GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set.
  6. [6]
    Unicode Consortium; IBM. "IBM-970". International Components for Unicode.
  7. [7]
    Steele, Shawn (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". Microsoft / Unicode Consortium.
  8. [8]
    Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-02-11]. "BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".
  9. [9]
    van Kesteren, Anne. "big5". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.

See also

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