O (kana)

Hiragana	Katakana
Stroke order
Unicode
U + 304A	U + 30AA
origin
於	於
Transliteration
Kunrei :	O
Hepburn :	O
50 sounds board
a i u e O あ ア い イ う ウ え エ お オ k か カ き キ く ク け ケ こ コ s さ サ し シ す ス せ セ そ ソ t た タ ち チ つ ツ て テ と ト n な ナ に ニ ぬ ヌ ね ネ の ノ H は ハ ひ ヒ ふ フ へ ヘ ほ ホ m ま マ み ミ む ム め メ も モ y や ヤ ゆ ユ よ ヨ r ら ラ り リ る ル れ レ ろ ロ w わ ワ ゐ ヰ ゑ ヱ を ヲ ん ン

The syllable characters (kana) お ( hiragana ) and オ ( katakana ) ( romanized o ) take fifth place in the Japanese alphabet, it is between え and か . In the Iroha it is at number 27, between の and く . In the adjacent table (sorted by columns, from right to left) お is in the first column ( あ 行 , "A column") and in the fifth row ( お 段 , "O row"). Both represent  [ [o] ] .

shape	Rōmaji	Hiragana	Katakana
Normal a / i / u / e / o ( あ 行 a-gyō )	O	お	オ
	ou oo , oh ō	お う, お ぅ お お, お ぉ お ー	オ ウ, オ ゥ オ オ, オ ォ オ ー

Derivation

お and オ were derived from the Kanji 於 via man'yōgana .

variants

The reduced forms of the kana (ぉ, ォ) are used to represent foreign phones in the Japanese language , for example フ ォ (fo).

Stroke order

Stroke sequence for お

Stroke sequence for オ

The hiragana お is drawn with three lines :

1. A short horizontal line at the top left.
2. Above through the middle of the first line a vertical line downwards, then a short diagonal upwards to the left, followed by an open curve (similar to a three-quarters "o") to the right and then ending at the bottom just to the right of the vertical.
3. In the middle right a short, curved diagonal line above the arch of the second line.

The katakana オ consists of three strokes:

1. At the top a horizontal line from left to right.
2. At the top right a line vertically downwards through the right third of the first line.
3. Starting from the intersection of the two lines a diagonal to the bottom left.

Other forms of representation

• In Japanese Braille :

• The Wabun code is: ・ - ・ ・ ・
• In the Japanese spelling table it is spelled as "大阪 の オ" (Osaka no O).

Usage and grammar

as a courtesy prefix

To express politeness, Hiragana お can be placed in front of various parts of speech (usually the noun, verb or the Japanese forms of the adverb and adjective ( Keiyoushi, Keiyoudoshi and Rentaishi )).

“Example: お 名 前 は 何 と お っ し ゃ い ま す か。
Onamae wa nan to osshaimasu ka.
What's your name?"

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literature

• Seiichi Makino; Michio Tsutsui: A dictionary of basic japanese grammar. Tokyo, The Japan Times, 1992 ISBN 4-7890-0454-6
• Langenscheidt's Japanese learning dictionary. Edited by The Japanese Foundation. Japanese Language Institute, Berlin a. a. 1993 ISBN 3-468-49019-4
• Hideichi Ono: Japanese Grammar. Tokyo, Hokuseido Press, 1990 ISBN 4-590-00399-6
• Wolfgang Hadamitzky: Handbook and Lexicon of Japanese Writing. Kanji and Kana 1. Berlin a. a., Langenscheidt 1995, ISBN 3-468-49388-6

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Handbook and Lexicon of Japanese Writing, pp. 18–19, Derivation tables for the Hiragana and Katakana. See also: derivation table of the kana signs # vowel series
2. ↑ See also the fifty-lute table plus additions, e.g. manual and lexicon of Japanese writing, p. 22
3. ↑ Information on Braille
4. ↑ A dictionary of basic japanese grammar, p 343
5. ↑ Langenscheidt's Japanese learning dictionary, p. 558

Web links

Wiktionary: お  - Explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations