Ku (kana)
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| transliteration | ku | |||
| translit. with dakuten | gu | |||
| hiragana origin | 久 | |||
| katakana origin | 久 | |||
| spelling kana |
クラブのク (Kurabu no "ku") | |||
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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 [ɡu͍] 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].
In the Ainu language, the katakana ク can be written as small ㇰ, representing a final k sound as in アイヌイタㇰ Ainu itak (Ainu language).[1] This was developed along with other extended katakana to represent sounds in Ainu that are not found in standard Japanese katakana.
| 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 | |
| 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
 Stroke order in writing く |
 Stroke order in writing ク |
Other communicative representations
| Character | く | ク | ｸ | ㇰ | ぐ | グ | ||||||
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| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER KU | KATAKANA LETTER KU | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER KU | KATAKANA LETTER SMALL KU | HIRAGANA LETTER GU | KATAKANA LETTER GU | ||||||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | decimal | hex | decimal | hex | decimal | hex | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
| Unicode | 12367 | U+304F | 12463 | U+30AF | 65400 | U+FF78 | 12784 | U+31F0 | 12368 | U+3050 | 12464 | U+30B0 |
| UTF-8 | 227 129 143 | E3 81 8F | 227 130 175 | E3 82 AF | 239 189 184 | EF BD B8 | 227 135 176 | E3 87 B0 | 227 129 144 | E3 81 90 | 227 130 176 | E3 82 B0 |
| Numeric character reference | く | く | ク | ク | ｸ | ｸ | ㇰ | ㇰ | ぐ | ぐ | グ | グ |
| Shift JIS | 130 173 | 82 AD | 131 78 | 83 4E | 184 | B8 | 130 174 | 82 AE | 131 79 | 83 4F | ||
- Braille
| く / ク in Japanese Braille | |||||||
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| く / ク ku | ぐ / グ gu | くう / クー kū | ぐう / グー gū | Other kana based on Braille く | |||
| きゅ / キュ kyu | ぎゅ / ギュ gyu | きゅう / キュー kyū | ぎゅう / ギュー gyū | ||||
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- Japanese semaphore
The Wabun code for く or ク is ・・・－.
References
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Look up く, ぐ, ク, or グ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |