ぬ

Character	ぬ
Unicode name	HIRAGANA LETTER NU
Codepoint	U+306C

See also め, and -ぬ

Japanese

Stroke order

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: [nɯᵝ]

Syllable

ぬ (Hepburn romanization nu)

1. The hiragana syllable ぬ (nu), whose equivalent in katakana is ヌ (nu). It is the twenty-third syllable of the gojūon order, and its position in gojūon tables is な行う段 (NA-gyō, U-dan; “row NA, section U”).

Suffix

ぬ (romaji -nu)

1. (after the -ない (-nai) stem of a verb) not, (a verb-negating suffix)
2. (archaic) (indicates completion)

Derived terms

• 泣く子と地頭には勝てぬ (なくことじとうにはかてぬ, naku ko to jitō ni wa kate nu); you can't fight city hall, you cannot win against someone who doesn't listen to reason

Related terms

• For a list of words starting with ぬ (nu) see: Special:Allpages/ぬ

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
• ない (-nai)
• ません (-masen)
• ん (-n)
• ず (zu)