お

お U+304A, お HIRAGANA LETTER O ← ぉ [U+3049] Hiragana か → [U+304B]

Japanese

Stroke order

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [o̞]

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Syllable

お (romaji o)

1. The hiragana syllable お (o). Its equivalent in katakana is オ (o). It is the fifth syllable in the gojūon order; its position is あ行お段 (a-gyō o-dan, “row a, section o”).

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, こ𛄲ご, 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, 𛀆, ゆゅ, 𛀁, よょ, らら゚, りり゚, るる゚, れれ゚, ろろ゚, わゎわ゙, ゐ𛅐ゐ゙, 𛄟, ゑ𛅑ゑ゙, を𛅒を゙, ん, ー, ゝ, ゞ, ゟ

Etymology 2

Interjection

お • (o) 

1. 諾: yes, alright, okay

Noun

お • (o) 

1. オ: a sign used in some books
2. 尾: tail, brush, train
3. 峰, 丘: hill; peak
4. 魚: fish
5. 麻, 苧: the hemp or ramie plant; thread or yarn made from fibers derived from the bark of hemp or ramie stems
6. 雄, 男, 牡, 夫: man, male
7. 緒: cord

Prefix

お • (o-) 

1. 小: small
2. 御: honorific prefix to make a word polite

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of お – see the following entries.

【悪】3 [affix] hate; loathe

【汚】S [affix] dirty

(This term, お, is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.) For a list of all kanji read as お, see Category:Japanese kanji read as お.)