ゆ

Character	ゆ
Unicode name	HIRAGANA LETTER YU
Codepoint	U+3086

Japanese

Stroke order

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: [jɯᵝ]

Syllable

ゆ (Hepburn romanization yu)

1. The hiragana syllable ゆ (yu), whose equivalent in katakana is ユ (yu). It is the thirty-seventh syllable of the gojūon order, and its position in gojūon tables is や行う段 (YA-gyō, U-dan; “row YA, section U”).

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

Etymology 2

Attaches to the irrealis form of verbs. Conjugates as a lower bigrade: ye, ye, yu, yuru, yure, -.

Suffix

ゆ (romaji yu)

1. expresses passiveness
2. expresses possibility
3. expresses natural, spontaneous occurrence

Derived terms

• あらゆる
• 所謂
• 見える
• 聞こえる
• 覚える

Related terms

• For a list of words starting with ゆ (yu) see: Special:Allpages/ゆ