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O (kana)
Character of the Japanese writing system From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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O (hiragana: お, katakana: オ) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. In the modern Japanese system of alphabetical order, they occupy the fifth place in the modern Gojūon (五十音) system of collating kana. In the Iroha, they occupy the 27th, between の and く. In the table at right (ordered by columns, from right to left), お lies in the first column (あ行, "column A") and the fifth row (お段, "row O"). Both represent [o].
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Derivation
お and オ originate, via man'yōgana, from the kanji 於.
Variant forms
Scaled-down versions of the kana (ぉ, ォ) are used to express morae foreign to the Japanese language, such as フォ (fo).
Stroke order
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The hiragana お is made with three strokes:
- A horizontal line from left to right.
- A stroke consisting of a vertical line, a small diagonal line going upwards and to the left, and an open curve heading right and downwards.
- A small curved stroke on the right.
The katakana オ is made with three strokes:
- At the top, a horizontal stroke from left to right.
- A downward vertical stroke cutting through the first stroke, with a small hook at the end facing left.
- At the intersection of the first two strokes, a diagonal line going downwards and to the left.
Other communicative representations
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| Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code |
| 大阪のオ Ōsaka no "O" |
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| Japanese Navy Signal Flag | Japanese semaphore | Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling) | Braille dots-24 Japanese Braille |
- Full Braille representation
* When lengthening "-o" morae in Japanese braille, a chōon is always used, as in standard katakana usage instead of adding an お / オ.
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