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transliteration | wu | ||
hiragana origin | 汙/于 | ||
katakana origin | 汙 | ||
unicode | U+1B11F, U+1B122 |
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This article relies largely or entirely on a
single source. (December 2020) |
Wu ( hiragana: 𛄟, katakana: 𛄢) is a Japanese mora or a kana used to write it, though it has never been in standard use. [1]
It is presumed that 𛄟 would have represented /β̞u/. [2] [a] Along with 𛀆 and 𛀁 (yi and ye respectively), the mora wu has no officially recognized kana, as these morae do not occur in native Japanese words; however, during the Meiji period, linguists almost unanimously agreed on the kana for yi, ye, and wu. 𛀆 and wu are thought to have never occurred as morae in Japanese, and 𛀁 was merged with え and エ.
In the Edo period and the Meiji period, some Japanese linguists tried to separate kana u and kana wu. The shapes of characters differed with each linguist. 𛄟 and 𛄢 were just two of many shapes.
They were phonetic symbols to fill in the blanks of the gojuon table. Japanese people didn't separate them in normal writing.
These suggestions weren't accepted.
This kana has been encoded into Unicode 14.0 since September 14, 2021 as HIRAGANA LETTER ARCHAIC WU (U+1B11F), and KATAKANA LETTER ARCHAIC WU (U+1B122).
![]() | You can help expand this article with text translated from
the corresponding article in Japanese. (August 2021) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
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wu | |||
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transliteration | wu | ||
hiragana origin | 汙/于 | ||
katakana origin | 汙 | ||
unicode | U+1B11F, U+1B122 |
kana gojūon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kana modifiers and marks | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Multi-moraic kana | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This article relies largely or entirely on a
single source. (December 2020) |
Wu ( hiragana: 𛄟, katakana: 𛄢) is a Japanese mora or a kana used to write it, though it has never been in standard use. [1]
It is presumed that 𛄟 would have represented /β̞u/. [2] [a] Along with 𛀆 and 𛀁 (yi and ye respectively), the mora wu has no officially recognized kana, as these morae do not occur in native Japanese words; however, during the Meiji period, linguists almost unanimously agreed on the kana for yi, ye, and wu. 𛀆 and wu are thought to have never occurred as morae in Japanese, and 𛀁 was merged with え and エ.
In the Edo period and the Meiji period, some Japanese linguists tried to separate kana u and kana wu. The shapes of characters differed with each linguist. 𛄟 and 𛄢 were just two of many shapes.
They were phonetic symbols to fill in the blanks of the gojuon table. Japanese people didn't separate them in normal writing.
These suggestions weren't accepted.
This kana has been encoded into Unicode 14.0 since September 14, 2021 as HIRAGANA LETTER ARCHAIC WU (U+1B11F), and KATAKANA LETTER ARCHAIC WU (U+1B122).