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.
| koto | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| |||
| transliteration | koto | ||
| hiragana origin | こと | ||
| katakana origin | 事 | ||
The katakana koto is as a shorthand used in shinkatakana (真片仮名) (an obsolete writing style that exclusively used katakana instead of hiragana).[1][2]
In Unicode
edit| Preview | ヿ | |
|---|---|---|
| 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
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Look up ヿ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
References
edit- ^ 福澤諭吉; 中上川彦次郎 [in Japanese] (1882-05-13). 帝室論 [imperial theory] (in Japanese). 時事新報社. doi:10.11501/783521. ndldm:783521.
- ^ "鐵道略則 - Wikisource". ja.wikisource.org. Retrieved 2020-01-18.
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