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こ, in hiragana or コ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one
mora Mora may refer to: People * Mora (surname) Places Sweden * Mora, Säter, Sweden * Mora, Sweden, the seat of Mora Municipality * Mora Municipality, Sweden United States * Mora, Louisiana, an unincorporated community * Mora, Minnesota, a city * M ...
. Both represent . The shape of these kana comes from the kanji
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; 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 (゜) does not occur with ''ko'' in normal Japanese text, but it may be used by linguists to indicate a
nasal Nasal is an adjective referring to the nose, part of human or animal anatomy. It may also be shorthand for the following uses in combination: * With reference to the human nose: ** Nasal administration, a method of pharmaceutical drug delivery ** ...
pronunciation .


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Other communicative representations

* Full Braille representation * Computer encodings


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Koto (kana) Koto (hiragana: , katakana: ヿ) is one of the Japanese kana. It is a polysyllabic kana which represents two morae. Both the hiragana and katakana forms represent . is a combination (ligature) of the hiragana graphs of ko (こ) and to (と), ...
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