く, in hiragana or ク in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one

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. Both represent and their shapes come from the kanji 久. This kana may have a dakuten added, transforming it into ぐ in hiragana, グ in katakana and ''gu'' in Hepburn romanization. The dakuten's addition also changes the sound of the syllable represented, to in initial positions and varying between and in the middle of words. A handakuten (゜) does not occur with ''ku'' in normal Japanese text, but it may be used by linguists to indicate a

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pronunciation . In the

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, the katakana ク can be written as small ㇰ, representing a final k sound as in アイヌイタㇰ ''Ainu itak'' (Ainu language). This was developed along with other extended katakana to represent sounds in Ainu that are not found in standard Japanese katakana.

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