こ

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Character	こ
Unicode name	HIRAGANA LETTER KO
Codepoint	U+3053

Japanese

Stroke order

Etymology

Derived in the Heian period from writing the man'yōgana kanji 己 in the cursive sōsho style.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ko̞]

Syllable

こ (Hepburn romanization ko)

1. The hiragana syllable こ (ko), whose equivalent in katakana is コ (ko). It is the tenth syllable of the gojūon order, and its position in gojūon tables is か行お段 (KA-gyō, O-dan; “row KA, section O”).

Related terms

• For a list of words starting with こ (ko) see: Special:Allpages/こ

Derived terms

• ご (go)

See also

• (Hiragana) 平仮名; あぁ, いぃ, うぅゔ, えぇ, おぉ, かゕが, きぎ, くぐ, けゖげ, こご, さざ, しじ, すず, せぜ, そぞ, ただ, ちぢ, つっづ, てで, とど, な, に, ぬ, ね, の, はばぱ, ひびぴ, ふぶぷ, へべぺ, ほぼぽ, ま, み, む, め, も, やゃ, ゆゅ, よょ, ら, り, る, れ, ろ, わゎ, ゐ, ゑ, を, ん, ー, ゝ, ゞ, ゟ

Noun

こ (romaji ko)

1. 子, 児: child