Koto (kana)

Koto (hiragana: , katakana: ヿ) is one of the Japanese kana. It is a polysyllabic kana which represents two morae. Both the hiragana and katakana forms represent [koto]. is a combination (ligature) of the hiragana graphs of ko (こ) and to (と), while ヿ originates from the Chinese character 事.

koto
hiragana
katakana
transliterationkoto
hiragana originこと
katakana origin

The katakana koto is as a shorthand used in shinkatakana (真片仮名) (an obsolete writing style that exclusively used katakana instead of hiragana).[1][2]

In Unicode

Character information
Preview
Unicode name KATAKANA DIGRAPH KOTO
Encodingsdecimalhex
Unicode12543U+30FF
UTF-8227 131 191E3 83 BF
Numeric character referenceヿヿ
JIS X 021334 5622 38

See also

References

  1. 福澤諭吉; 中上川彦次郎 [in Japanese] (1882-05-13). 帝室論 [imperial theory] (in Japanese). 時事新報社. doi:10.11501/783521. ndldm:783521.
  2. "鐵道略則 - Wikisource". ja.wikisource.org. Retrieved 2020-01-18.
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