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Yo (kana)

Character of the Japanese writing system

yo
hiragana katakana
transliteration	yo
hiragana origin	与
katakana origin	與
Man'yōgana	用 容 欲 夜 与 余 四 世 代 吉
spelling kana	吉野のヨ Yoshino no "yo"
unicode	U+3088, U+30E8
braille
Note: These Man'yōgana originally represented syllables with one of two different vowel sounds, which merged in later pronunciation

よ, in hiraganaorヨinkatakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. The hiragana is made in two strokes, while the katakana in three. Both represent [jo].

When small and preceded by an -i kana, this kana represents a palatalization of the preceding consonant sound with the [o] vowel (see yōon).^[1]

Inmathematics, よ is sometimes used to represent the Yoneda embedding.^[2]

Stroke order[edit]

Other communicative representations[edit]

Japanese Navy Signal Flag	Japanese semaphore	Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling)	Braille dots-345 Japanese Braille

• Full Braille representation

よ / ヨinJapanese Braille
よ / ヨ yo	よう / ヨー yō	ょ/ョ Yōon*	゛ょ/゛ョ Dakuten + Yōon*	゜ょ/゜ョ Handakuten + Yōon*

* The yōon characters ょ and ョ are encoded in Japanese Braille by prefixing "-o" kana (e.g. Ko, So) with a yōon braille indicator, which can be combined with the "Dakuten" or "Handakuten" braille indicators for the appropriate consonant sounds.

• Computer encodings

References[edit]

See also[edit]

Look up よ, ょ, ヨ, or ョ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

• Yori (kana)

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