Koto (kana)
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| koto | |||
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| transliteration | koto | ||
| hiragana origin | こと | ||
| katakana origin | 事 | ||
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| Kana modifiers and marks | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| sokuonfu (gemination) · yōon (palatalization) · chōonpu (vowel lengthener) · Iteration marks · dakuten/handakuten (voiced & semi-voiced marks) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Multi-syllabic kana | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| iu · kashiko · koto · sama · shite · toki · tomo · nari · mairasesoro · yori | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 [koto]. is a combination (ligature) of the hiragana graphs of ko (こ) and to (と), while ヿ originates from the Chinese character 事.
In Unicode
| Preview | ヿ | |
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| Unicode name | KATAKANA DIGRAPH KOTO | |
| Encodings | decimal | hex |
| Unicode | 12543 | U+30FF |
| UTF-8 | 227 131 191 | E3 83 BF |
| Numeric character reference | ヿ |
ヿ |
| JIS X 0213 | 34 56 | 22 38 |
See also
Look up ヿ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
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