Ko (kana)
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| ko | |||
|---|---|---|---|
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| transliteration | ko | ||
| translit. with dakuten | go | ||
| translit. with handakuten | (ngo) | ||
| hiragana origin | 己 | ||
| katakana origin | 己 | ||
| spelling kana | 子供のコ (Kodomo no "ko") | ||
| unicode | U+3053, U+30B3 | ||
| braille |  | ||
こ, in hiragana, or コ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. Both represent IPA: [ko]. 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 [ɡo] in initial positions, and varying between [ŋo] and [ɣo] 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 [ŋo].
| Form | Rōmaji | Hiragana | Katakana |
|---|---|---|---|
| Normal k- (か行 ka-gyō) |
ko | こ | コ |
| kou koo kō |
こう こお こー |
コウ コオ コー | |
| Addition dakuten g- (が行 ga-gyō) |
go | ご | ゴ |
| gou goo gō |
ごう ごお ごー |
ゴウ ゴオ ゴー |
Stroke order
Other communicative representations
| Preview | こ | コ | ｺ | ご | ゴ | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER KO | KATAKANA LETTER KO | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER KO | HIRAGANA LETTER GO | KATAKANA LETTER GO | |||||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 12371 | U+3053 | 12467 | U+30B3 | 65402 | U+FF7A | 12372 | U+3054 | 12468 | U+30B4 |
| UTF-8 | 227 129 147 | E3 81 93 | 227 130 179 | E3 82 B3 | 239 189 186 | EF BD BA | 227 129 148 | E3 81 94 | 227 130 180 | E3 82 B4 |
| Numeric character reference | こ |
こ |
コ |
コ |
ｺ |
ｺ |
ご |
ご |
ゴ |
ゴ |
| Shift JIS | 130 177 | 82 B1 | 131 82 | 83 52 | 186 | BA | 130 178 | 82 B2 | 131 83 | 83 53 |
In Japanese Braille, こ or コ is represented as:
The Wabun code for こ or コ is －－－－.