ゆ, in hiragana or ユ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represents one mora. Both the hiragana and katakana forms are written in two strokes and represent the sound [jɯ].
| yu | |||
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| transliteration | yu | ||
| hiragana origin | 由 | ||
| katakana origin | 由 | ||
| Man'yōgana | 由 喩 遊 湯 | ||
| spelling kana | 弓矢のユ Yumiya no "yu" | ||
| unicode | U+3086, U+30E6 | ||
| braille |  | ||
When small and preceded by an -i kana, this kana represents a palatalization of the preceding consonant sound with the [ɯ] vowel (see yōon).[1]
| Forms | Rōmaji | Hiragana | Katakana |
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| Normal y- (や行 ya-gyō) |
yu | ゆ | ユ |
| yuu yū |
ゆう ゆー |
ユウ ユー |
Stroke order
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Other communicative representations
edit| Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code |
| 弓矢のユ Yumiya no "Yu" |
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- Full Braille representation
| ゆ / ユ in Japanese Braille | ||||
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| ゆ / ユ yu |
ゆう / ユー yū |
ゅ/ュ Yōon* |
゛ゅ/゛ュ Dakuten + Yōon* |
゜ゅ/゜ュ Handakuten + Yōon* |
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* The yōon characters ゅ and ュ are encoded in Japanese Braille by prefixing "-u" kana (e.g. Ku, Su) with a yōon braille indicator, which can be combined with the "Dakuten" or "Handakuten" braille indicators for the appropriate consonant sounds.
| Preview | ゆ | ユ | ﾕ | ㋴ | ||||
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| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER YU | KATAKANA LETTER YU | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER YU | CIRCLED KATAKANA YU | ||||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 12422 | U+3086 | 12518 | U+30E6 | 65429 | U+FF95 | 13044 | U+32F4 |
| UTF-8 | 227 130 134 | E3 82 86 | 227 131 166 | E3 83 A6 | 239 190 149 | EF BE 95 | 227 139 180 | E3 8B B4 |
| Numeric character reference | ゆ |
ゆ |
ユ |
ユ |
ﾕ |
ﾕ |
㋴ |
㋴ |
| Shift JIS[2] | 130 228 | 82 E4 | 131 134 | 83 86 | 213 | D5 | ||
| EUC-JP[3] | 164 230 | A4 E6 | 165 230 | A5 E6 | 142 213 | 8E D5 | ||
| GB 18030[4] | 164 230 | A4 E6 | 165 230 | A5 E6 | 132 49 154 57 | 84 31 9A 39 | ||
| EUC-KR[5] / UHC[6] | 170 230 | AA E6 | 171 230 | AB E6 | ||||
| Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[7] | 198 234 | C6 EA | 199 126 | C7 7E | ||||
| Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[8] | 199 109 | C7 6D | 199 226 | C7 E2 | ||||
| Preview | ゅ | ュ | ｭ | |||
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| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER SMALL YU | KATAKANA LETTER SMALL YU | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER SMALL YU | |||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 12421 | U+3085 | 12517 | U+30E5 | 65389 | U+FF6D |
| UTF-8 | 227 130 133 | E3 82 85 | 227 131 165 | E3 83 A5 | 239 189 173 | EF BD AD |
| Numeric character reference | ゅ |
ゅ |
ュ |
ュ |
ｭ |
ｭ |
| Shift JIS[2] | 130 227 | 82 E3 | 131 133 | 83 85 | 173 | AD |
| EUC-JP[3] | 164 229 | A4 E5 | 165 229 | A5 E5 | 142 173 | 8E AD |
| GB 18030[4] | 164 229 | A4 E5 | 165 229 | A5 E5 | 132 49 150 57 | 84 31 96 39 |
| EUC-KR[5] / UHC[6] | 170 229 | AA E5 | 171 229 | AB E5 | ||
| Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[7] | 198 233 | C6 E9 | 199 125 | C7 7D | ||
| Big5 (ETEN/> / HKSCS)[8] | 199 108 | C7 6C | 199 225 | C7 E1 | ||
References
edit- ^ Jim Gleeson (2013). "Contracted sounds". Japanese Hiragana: An Introductory Japanese Language Workbook. Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 9781462913978.
- ^ a b Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-03-08]. "Shift-JIS to Unicode".
- ^ a b Unicode Consortium; IBM. "EUC-JP-2007". International Components for Unicode.
- ^ a b Standardization Administration of China (SAC) (2005-11-18). GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set.
- ^ a b Unicode Consortium; IBM. "IBM-970". International Components for Unicode.
- ^ a b Steele, Shawn (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". Microsoft / Unicode Consortium.
- ^ a b Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-02-11]. "BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".
- ^ a b van Kesteren, Anne. "big5". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.
- Andrew Nelson, John H. Haig (1999). The Compact Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary. Tuttle Publishing.
