Koto (kana)
Character of the Japanese writing system
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Koto (hiragana: 
, katakana: ヿ) is one of the Japanese kana. It is a polysyllabic kana which represents two morae. Both the hiragana and katakana forms represent [koto]. is a combination (ligature) of the hiragana graphs of ko (こ) and to (と), while ヿ originates from the Chinese character 事.
| koto | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| |||
| Transliteration | koto | ||
| Hiragana origin | こと | ||
| Katakana origin | 事 | ||
The katakana koto is as a shorthand used in shinkatakana (真片仮名) (an obsolete writing style that exclusively used katakana instead of hiragana).[1][2]
In Unicode
| Preview | ヿ | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | KATAKANA DIGRAPH KOTO | |
| Encodings | decimal | hex |
| Unicode | 12543 | U+30FF |
| UTF-8 | 227 131 191 | E3 83 BF |
| Numeric character reference | ヿ | ヿ |
| JIS X 0213 | 34 56 | 22 38 |
See also
Look up ヿ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
