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Katakana |
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| Transliteration: | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hiragana Man'yōgana: | 乃 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Katakana Man'yōgana: | 乃 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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の, in hiragana, or ノ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. In the gojūon system of ordering of Japanese syllables, it occupies the 25th position, between ね (ne) and は (ha). It occupies the 26th position in the iroha ordering. Both represent [no].
| Form | Rōmaji | Hiragana | Katakana |
|---|---|---|---|
| Normal n- (な行 na-gyō) |
no, ro | の | ノ |
| nou, rou noo,roo nō, roh |
のう, のぅ のお, のぉ のー |
ノウ, ノゥ ノオ, ノォ ノー |
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To write の, begin slightly above the center, stroke downward diagonally, then upward, and then curve around as indicated by the arrows, or rotate a "9".
To write ノ, simply do a swooping curve from top-right to bottom left.
| Character form | Unicode | EUC-JP | Shift JIS | GB 2312 | HKSCS |
| の | U+306E | A4CE | 82CC | A4CE | C755 |
| ノ | U+30CE | A5CE | 836D | A5CE | C7CA |
| Halfwidth katakana ﾉ | U+FF89 | / | C9 | / | / |
In Japanese Braille, の, or ノ, or is represented as
| －● ●－ ●－ |
The Morse code for の, or ノ, is ・・－－.
See also hentaigana and gyaru-moji for other variant kana forms of no.
Like every other hiragana, the hiragana の developed from man'yōgana, kanji used for phonetic purposes, written in the highly cursive, flowing grass script style. In the picture on the left, the top shows the kanji 乃 written in the kaisho style, and the centre image is the same kanji written in the sōsho style. The bottom part is the kana for "no", a further abbreviation.
の is a dental nasal consonant, articulated on the upper teeth, combined with a close-mid back rounded vowel to form one mora.
In the Japanese language, as well as forming words, の may be a particle showing possession. For example, the phrase "わたしのでんわ” watashi no denwa means "my telephone."
の has also proliferated on signs and labels in the Chinese-speaking world, especially in Taiwan because of its historical connections with Japan. (see Taiwan under Japanese rule) It is used in place of the Modern Chinese possessive marker 的 de or Classical Chinese possessive marker 之 zhī, and の is pronounced in the same way as the Chinese character it replaces. This is usually done to "stand out" or to give an "exotic / Japanese feel", e.g. in commercial brand names, such as the fruit juice brand 鲜の每日C, where the の can be read as both 之 zhī, the possessive marker, and as 汁 zhī, meaning "juice".[1]