Yu (kana)

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yu
hiragana
japanese hiragana yu
katakana
japanese katakana yu
transliterationyu
hiragana origin
katakana origin
Man'yōgana由 喩 遊 湯
spelling kana弓矢のユ
Yumiya no "yu"
unicodeU+3086, U+30E6
braille⠬

, in hiragana or 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
yuu, ywu
ゆう, ゆぅ
ゆー
ユウ, ユゥ
ユー

Stroke order[edit]

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[edit]

  • Full Braille representation
ゆ / ユ in Japanese Braille
ゆ / ユ
yu
ゆう / ユー
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
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
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[edit]

  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.