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Yo (kana)
Character of the Japanese writing system From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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よ, in hiragana or ヨ in katakana, 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]
In mathematics, よ is sometimes used to represent the Yoneda embedding.[2]
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Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code |
吉野のヨ Yoshino no "Yo" |
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Japanese Navy Signal Flag | Japanese semaphore | Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling) | Braille dots-345 Japanese Braille |
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* 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.
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