Yu (kana)

Yu (hiragana: ゆ, katakana: ユ) 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 .

When small and preceded by an -i kana, this kana represents a palatalization of the preceding consonant sound with the vowel (see yōon).

Stroke order

Other communicative representations

• Full Braille representation

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.

• Computer encodings

References

• Andrew Nelson, John H. Haig (1999). The Compact Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary. Tuttle Publishing.

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