Yu (kana)

yu
hiragana
japanese hiragana yu		 katakana
japanese katakana yu
transliterationyu
hiragana origin由
katakana origin由
Man'yōgana由 喩 遊 湯
spelling kana弓矢のユ
Yumiya no "yu"
unicodeU+3086, U+30E6
braille⠬
kana gojūon
warayamahanatasakaa
wiri(yi)mihinichishikii
(wu)ruyumufunutsusukuu
were(ye)mehenetesekee
woroyomohonotosokoo
n
Kana modifiers and marks
Multi-moraic kana

ゆ, in hiragana or ユ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represents one mora. Both the hiragana and katakana forms are written in two strokes and represent the sound [jɯ].

When small and preceded by an -i kana, this kana represents a palatalization of the preceding consonant sound with the [ɯ] vowel (see yōon).[1]

Forms Rōmaji Hiragana Katakana
Normal y-
(や行 ya-gyō) 		yu ゆ ユ
yuu
yū 		ゆう
ゆー 		ユウ
ユー

Stroke order

Stroke order in writing ゆ
Stroke order in writing ゆ
Stroke order in writing ユ
Stroke order in writing ユ
Stroke order in writing ゆ
Stroke order in writing ユ

Other communicative representations

  • Full Braille representation
ゆ / ユ in Japanese Braille
ゆ / ユ
yu		 ゆう / ユー
yū		 ゅ/ュ
Yōon*		 ゛ゅ/゛ュ
Dakuten + Yōon*		 ゜ゅ/゜ュ
Handakuten + Yōon*
⠬ (braille pattern dots-346) ⠬ (braille pattern dots-346)⠒ (braille pattern dots-25) ⠈ (braille pattern dots-4) ⠘ (braille pattern dots-45) ⠨ (braille pattern dots-46)

* The yōon characters ゅ and ュ are encoded in Japanese Braille by prefixing "-u" kana (e.g. Ku, Su) with a yōon braille indicator, which can be combined with the "Dakuten" or "Handakuten" braille indicators for the appropriate consonant sounds.

Character information
Preview ゆ ユ ﾕ ㋴
Unicode name HIRAGANA LETTER YU KATAKANA LETTER YU HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER YU CIRCLED KATAKANA YU
Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex dec hex
Unicode 12422 U+3086 12518 U+30E6 65429 U+FF95 13044 U+32F4
UTF-8 227 130 134 E3 82 86 227 131 166 E3 83 A6 239 190 149 EF BE 95 227 139 180 E3 8B B4
Numeric character reference ゆ ゆ ユ ユ ﾕ ﾕ ㋴ ㋴
Shift JIS[2] 130 228 82 E4 131 134 83 86 213 D5
EUC-JP[3] 164 230 A4 E6 165 230 A5 E6 142 213 8E D5
GB 18030[4] 164 230 A4 E6 165 230 A5 E6 132 49 154 57 84 31 9A 39
EUC-KR[5] / UHC[6] 170 230 AA E6 171 230 AB E6
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[7] 198 234 C6 EA 199 126 C7 7E
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[8] 199 109 C7 6D 199 226 C7 E2
Character information
Preview ゅ ュ ｭ
Unicode name HIRAGANA LETTER SMALL YU KATAKANA LETTER SMALL YU HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER SMALL YU
Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex
Unicode 12421 U+3085 12517 U+30E5 65389 U+FF6D
UTF-8 227 130 133 E3 82 85 227 131 165 E3 83 A5 239 189 173 EF BD AD
Numeric character reference ゅ ゅ ュ ュ ｭ ｭ
Shift JIS[2] 130 227 82 E3 131 133 83 85 173 AD
EUC-JP[3] 164 229 A4 E5 165 229 A5 E5 142 173 8E AD
GB 18030[4] 164 229 A4 E5 165 229 A5 E5 132 49 150 57 84 31 96 39
EUC-KR[5] / UHC[6] 170 229 AA E5 171 229 AB E5
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[7] 198 233 C6 E9 199 125 C7 7D
Big5 (ETEN/> / HKSCS)[8] 199 108 C7 6C 199 225 C7 E1

References

  1. ^ Jim Gleeson (2013). "Contracted sounds". Japanese Hiragana: An Introductory Japanese Language Workbook. Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 9781462913978.
  2. ^ a b Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-03-08]. "Shift-JIS to Unicode".
  3. ^ a b Unicode Consortium; IBM. "EUC-JP-2007". International Components for Unicode.
  4. ^ a b Standardization Administration of China (SAC) (2005-11-18). GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set.
  5. ^ a b Unicode Consortium; IBM. "IBM-970". International Components for Unicode.
  6. ^ a b Steele, Shawn (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". Microsoft / Unicode Consortium.
  7. ^ a b Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-02-11]. "BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".
  8. ^ a b van Kesteren, Anne. "big5". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.
  • Andrew Nelson, John H. Haig (1999). The Compact Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary. Tuttle Publishing.
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