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hiragana is a Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with ''katakana'' as well as ''kanji''. It is a phonetic lettering system. The word ''hiragana'' literally means "flowing" or "simple" kana ("simple" originally as contrast ...
or コ in
katakana is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji). The word ''katakana'' means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana characters are derived f ...
, is one of the Japanese
kana The term may refer to a number of syllabaries used to write Japanese phonological units, morae. Such syllabaries include (1) the original kana, or , which were Chinese characters (kanji) used phonetically to transcribe Japanese, the most p ...
, each of which represents one mora. Both represent . The shape of these kana comes from the
kanji are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese family of scripts, Chinese script and used in the writing of Japanese language, Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese ...
Radical 49 or radical oneself () meaning " oneself" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes. In the ''Kangxi Dictionary'', there are 20 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical. is also ...
. This character may be supplemented by a
dakuten The , colloquially , is a diacritic most often used in the Japanese kana syllabaries to indicate that the consonant of a syllable should be pronounced voiced, for instance, on sounds that have undergone rendaku (sequential voicing). The , ...
; it becomes ご in hiragana, ゴ in katakana and ''go'' in Hepburn romanization. Also, the pronunciation is affected, transforming into in initial positions and varying between and in the middle of words. A
handakuten The , colloquially , is a diacritic most often used in the Japanese kana syllabaries to indicate that the consonant of a syllable should be pronounced voiced, for instance, on sounds that have undergone rendaku (sequential voicing). The , c ...
(゜) does not occur with ''ko'' in normal Japanese text, but it may be used by linguists to indicate a nasal pronunciation .


Stroke order


Other communicative representations

* Full Braille representation * Computer encodings


References


See also

* Koto (kana) {{DEFAULTSORT:Ko (Kana) Specific kana