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| Transliteration: | ku | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Hiragana Man'yōgana: | 久 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Katakana Man'yōgana: | 久 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Unicode: | U+304F | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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く, in hiragana, or ク in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. Both represent [ku͍], and their shapes come from the kanji 久.
This kana may have a dakuten added, transforming it into ぐ in hiragana, グ in katakana, and gu in Hepburn romanization. The dakuten's addition also changes the sound of the syllable represented, to [gu͍] in initial positions, and varying between [ŋu͍] and [ɣu͍] in the middle of words.
A handakuten (゜) does not occur with ku in normal Japanese text, but it may be used by linguists to indicate a nasal pronunciation [ŋu͍].
| Forms | Rōmaji | Hiragana | Katakana |
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| Normal k- (か行 ka-gyō) |
ku | く | ク |
| kuu kū |
くう, くぅ くー |
クウ, クゥ クー |
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| Addition dakuten g- (が行 ga-gyō) |
gu | ぐ | グ |
| guu gū |
ぐう, ぐぅ ぐー |
グウ, グゥ グー |
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Stroke order
Other communicative representations
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Look up く, ぐ, ク, or グ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
In Japanese Braille, く or ク is represented as:
| ● | ● |
| － | － |
| － | ● |
The Wabun code for く or ク is ・・・－.
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