U (kana)

Hiragana	Katakana
Stroke order
Unicode
U + 3046	U + 30A6
origin
宇	宇
Transliteration
Kunrei :	u
Hepburn :	u
50 sounds board
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う in Hiragana orウ in Katakana ( romanized u ) is one of the Japanese Kana which represents a Mora . Itranks third inmodern Japanese alphabetical sorting . It is also the 24th letter in the Iroha , immediately after theむ and before theゐ . In the Gojūon table (sorted by columns from left to right) う is in the first column (あ 行 , a-gyō , "Column A") and in the third row (う 段 , u-dan , "Row U" ). Both sounds represent [ u͍ ].

shape	Rōmaji	Hiragana	Katakana
Normal a / i / u / e / o ( あ 行 a-gyō )	u	う	ウ
	uu ū	う う , う ぅ う ー	ウ ウ , ウ ゥ ウ ー

For the combination う ぅ or ウ ゥ there is no uniform regulation in the Hepburn system, according to the variant Hyōjun-shiki in the 1974 version, this is transcribed as wu .

other forms
Form A ( w- ) Romaji Hiragana Katakana wa う ぁ ウ ァ wi う ぃ ウ ィ wu う ウ we う ぇ ウ ェ Where う ぉ ウ ォ	Form B ( v- ) Romaji Hiragana Katakana va ゔ ぁ ヴ ァ vi ゔ ぃ ヴ ィ vu ゔ ヴ ve ゔ ぇ ヴ ェ vo ゔ ぉ ヴ ォ

The hiragana variant of Dakuten ゔ is almost never used because the sound does not appear in original Japanese.

Derivation

Both forms う and ウ are derived from the Kanji 宇 via Man'yōgana (pronounced u with the meaning space ).

variants

The scaled down versions of the characters ( ぅ , ゥ ) are used to create mores that do not appear in the Japanese language, for example ト ゥ (tu). This form of application is relatively new. For example, in the phrase Tutankhamun's cartouche , the newer loanword cartouche uses the new phonetic form. In the older word Tutankhamun , ツ (tsu) is used as an approximation:

ツタ ン カ ー メ ン の カ ルト ゥー シ ュ (tsutankāmen no karutūshu)

The character う is also used in its normal form to lengthen the tone o , for example in the word 構想 , written in hiragana こ う そ う (kousou), pronounced kōsō . In some words, the character お (o) is used as an extension . There are morphological or historical reasons for this.

The kana ウ written with Dakuten ヴ (vu) is used to represent a phone foreign to Japanese, and is usually approximated with ブ (bu) to represent the sound.

Stroke order

Stroke sequence for う

Stroke sequence for ウ

The hiragana う is drawn with two lines :

1. At the top is a short diagonal hook, first swung to the right and then in the opposite direction to end just below the beginning.
2. Continued after a gap, a large curved line, initially diagonally slightly to the top right, then ending in a wide arc to the bottom left.

The katakana ウ is written with three lines.

1. At the top, a short vertical line pointing downwards.
2. The same line, but on the left edge and in height below the first line.
3. At the top of the second line, make a straight line to the right through the bottom of the first line. Then led in a wide curve down to the left. Apart from the short verticals, this katakana is identical to the フ .

Other forms of representation

• In Japanese Braille :

• The Wabun code is ・ ・ -
• In the Japanese spelling table , it is spelled as 上 野 の ウ ( Ueno no U ).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 海 津 知 緒 : 標準 式 ロ ー マ 字 つ づ り - 引用 . (No longer available online.) December 6, 2003, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; Retrieved October 27, 2013 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.