Ko (kana)

Ko (hiragana: こ, katakana: コ) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. Both represent . The shape of these kana comes from the kanji 己.

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 pronunciation .

Stroke order

Other communicative representations

• Full Braille representation

• Computer encodings

References

See also

• Koto (kana)