To (kana)
Character of the Japanese writing system
To (hiragana: と, katakana: ト) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. Both represent the sound [to], and when written with dakuten represent the sound [do]. In the Ainu language, the katakana ト can be written with a handakuten (which can be entered in a computer as either one character (ト゚) or two combined characters (ト゜) to represent the sound [tu], and is interchangeable with the katakana ツ゚.
01Stroke order
The Katakana ト is made from two strokes:
- A vertical stroke on in the center;
- A line pointing downwards towards the right.
02Other communicative representations
| Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code |
| 東京のト Tōkyō no "To" |
▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄ ⓘ |
| Japanese Navy Signal Flag | Japanese semaphore | Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling) | Braille dots-2345 Japanese Braille |
- Full Braille representation
| と / ト in Japanese Braille | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| と / ト to | ど / ド do | とう / トー tō/tou | どう / ドー dō/dou | Other kana based on Braille と | |||
| ちょ / チョ cho | ぢょ / ヂョ jo/dyo | ちょう / チョー chō | ぢょう / ヂョー jō/dyō | ||||
| Preview | と | ト | ﾄ | ㋣ | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER TO | KATAKANA LETTER TO | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER TO | CIRCLED KATAKANA TO | ||||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 12392 | U+3068 | 12488 | U+30C8 | 65412 | U+FF84 | 13027 | U+32E3 |
| UTF-8 | 227 129 168 | E3 81 A8 | 227 131 136 | E3 83 88 | 239 190 132 | EF BE 84 | 227 139 163 | E3 8B A3 |
| Numeric character reference | と | と | ト | ト | ﾄ | ﾄ | ㋣ | ㋣ |
| Shift JIS | 130 198 | 82 C6 | 131 103 | 83 67 | 196 | C4 | ||
| EUC-JP | 164 200 | A4 C8 | 165 200 | A5 C8 | 142 196 | 8E C4 | ||
| GB 18030 | 164 200 | A4 C8 | 165 200 | A5 C8 | 132 49 153 50 | 84 31 99 32 | ||
| EUC-KR / UHC | 170 200 | AA C8 | 171 200 | AB C8 | ||||
| Big5 (non-ETEN kana) | 198 204 | C6 CC | 199 96 | C7 60 | ||||
| Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS) | 199 79 | C7 4F | 199 196 | C7 C4 | ||||
| Preview | ㇳ | ど | ド | ト゚ | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | KATAKANA LETTER SMALL TO | HIRAGANA LETTER DO | KATAKANA LETTER DO | KATAKANA LETTER AINU TO | ||||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 12787 | U+31F3 | 12393 | U+3069 | 12489 | U+30C9 | 12488 12442 | U+30C8+309A |
| UTF-8 | 227 135 179 | E3 87 B3 | 227 129 169 | E3 81 A9 | 227 131 137 | E3 83 89 | 227 131 136 227 130 154 | E3 83 88 E3 82 9A |
| Numeric character reference | ㇳ | ㇳ | ど | ど | ド | ド | ト゚ | ト゚ |
| Shift JIS (plain) | 130 199 | 82 C7 | 131 104 | 83 68 | ||||
| Shift JIS-2004 | 131 239 | 83 EF | 130 199 | 82 C7 | 131 104 | 83 68 | 131 158 | 83 9E |
| EUC-JP (plain) | 164 201 | A4 C9 | 165 201 | A5 C9 | ||||
| EUC-JIS-2004 | 166 241 | A6 F1 | 164 201 | A4 C9 | 165 201 | A5 C9 | 165 254 | A5 FE |
| GB 18030 | 129 57 188 55 | 81 39 BC 37 | 164 201 | A4 C9 | 165 201 | A5 C9 | ||
| EUC-KR / UHC | 170 201 | AA C9 | 171 201 | AB C9 | ||||
| Big5 (non-ETEN kana) | 198 205 | C6 CD | 199 97 | C7 61 | ||||
| Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS) | 199 80 | C7 50 | 199 197 | C7 C5 | ||||
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Images, from Wikimedia Commons:
- Hiragana と stroke order animation.gif by Sirgazil, CC0
- Katakana ト stroke order animation.gif by Sirgazil, CC0
- と-bw.png by No machine-readable author provided. D.328 assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0
- ト-bw.png by Made by me, M4RC0, using Photoshop. We are making this kind of picture following the protocol of the section : Bitmap Image (PNG), CC BY-SA 2.0
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