と

Character	と
Unicode name	HIRAGANA LETTER TO
Codepoint	U+3068

Japanese

Stroke order

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: [to̞]

Syllable

と (Hepburn romanization to)

1. The hiragana syllable と (to), whose equivalent in katakana is ト (to). It is the twentieth syllable of the gojūon order, and its position in gojūon tables is た行お段 (TA-gyō, O-dan; “row TA, section O”).

Related terms

• For a list of words starting with と (to) see: Special:Allpages/と

Derived terms

• ど (do)
• って (tte)

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

Particle

と (romaji to)

1. with

   僕と行きたい？

   ぼくといきたい？

   Boku to ikitai?

   Do you want to go with me?

   あなたと一緒に行きます。

   あなたといっしょにいきます。

   Anata to issho ni ikimasu.

   I will go with you.

2. (when between nouns) and

   彼女は英語とフランス語が話せる。

   かのじょはえいごとふらんすごがはなせる。

   Kanojo wa eigo to furansugo ga hanaseru.

   She can speak English and French.

   それとこれ。

   それとこれ。

   Sore to kore.

   That and this.

3. used as a quotation

   「海まで！」と叫んだ。

   「うみまで！」とさけんだ。

   "Umi made!" to sakenda.

   "To the sea!" he cried.

4. if (when appended to a dictionary-form verb and followed by a present-tense sentence)

   勉強すると分かる。

   　べんきょうするとわかる。

   Benkyō suru to wakaru.

   If you study, you'll understand.

   円高が進むと、日本経済が混乱する。

   えんだかがすすむと、にほんけいざいがこんらんする。

   Endaka ga susumu to, nihon keizai ga konran suru.

   If the high yen continues, the Japanese economy will be in dire straits.

   二と三を掛けると六になる。

   にとさんをかけるとろくになる。

   Ni to san o kakeru to roku ni naru.

   If you multiply two and three, they make six.

5. when (when appended to a dictionary form verb and followed by a past-tense sentence)

   マンハッタンへ行くと、大学の友達に会った。

   まんはったんへいくとだいがくのともだちにあった。

   Manhattan e iku to, daigaku no tomodachi ni atta.

   When I went to Manhattan, I met a friend from university.

Usage notes

• と (to) in the sense of "and" can only be used to conjoin nouns; not verbs or sentences. They are joined by conjugation.
• と (to) in the sense of "and" implies that the list is complete. In the above sentence, the subject only speaks English and French. To imply other items, the particles とか (toka) or や (ya) are used in lieu of と (to). The particle など (nado, “etc., and so on”) can be appended to a list of nouns conjoined by と to imply that there are other items on the list.
• と (to) in the sense of "if" can be interchangeable with the conditional particles ば (ba) and たら (tara)/なら (nara) if the conditionals describe a hypothetical effect of an action.
• When と (to) is used in the meaning "when" it implies that something happened abruptly. See とき (toki).

Character data

• KUTEN code: 04-40
• Shift JIS: 82 C6