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Koto (kana)
Character of the Japanese writing system From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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]
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Look up ヿ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
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