ゆ

Yu (kana)

Yu (kana)

Character of the Japanese writing system

ゆ, in hiragana or ユ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represents one mora. Both the hiragana and katakana forms are written in two strokes and represent the sound [jɯ].

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

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Stroke order

Stroke order in writing ゆ
Stroke order in writing ユ
Stroke order in writing ゆ
Stroke order in writing ユ

Other communicative representations

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* The yōon characters ゅ and ュ are encoded in Japanese Braille by prefixing "-u" kana (e.g. Ku, Su) 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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Look up ゆ, ゅ, ユ, or ュ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

References

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    Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-03-08]. "Shift-JIS to Unicode".
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    Unicode Consortium; IBM. "EUC-JP-2007". International Components for Unicode.
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    Standardization Administration of China (SAC) (2005-11-18). GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set.
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    Steele, Shawn (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". Microsoft / Unicode Consortium.
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