Ko (kana)
Character of the Japanese writing system
Ko (hiragana: こ, katakana: コ) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. Both represent IPA: [ko]. The shape of these kana comes from the kanji 己.
This character may be supplemented by a dakuten; it becomes ご in hiragana, ゴ in katakana and go in Hepburn romanization. Also, the pronunciation is affected, transforming into [ɡo] in initial positions and varying between [ŋo] and [ɣo] in the middle of words.
A handakuten (゜) does not occur with ko in normal Japanese text, but it may be used by linguists to indicate a nasal pronunciation [ŋo].
01Other communicative representations
| Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code |
| 子供のコ Kodomo no "Ko" |
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| Japanese Navy Signal Flag | Japanese semaphore | Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling) | Braille dots-246 Japanese Braille |
- Full Braille representation
| こ / コ in Japanese Braille | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| こ / コ ko | ご / ゴ go | こう / コー kō/kou | ごう / ゴー gō/gou | Other kana based on Braille こ | |||
| きょ / キョ kyo | ぎょ / ギョ gyo | きょう / キョー kyō/kyou | ぎょう / ギョー gyō/gyou | ||||
| Preview | こ | コ | ｺ | ご | ゴ | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER KO | KATAKANA LETTER KO | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER KO | HIRAGANA LETTER GO | KATAKANA LETTER GO | |||||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 12371 | U+3053 | 12467 | U+30B3 | 65402 | U+FF7A | 12372 | U+3054 | 12468 | U+30B4 |
| UTF-8 | 227 129 147 | E3 81 93 | 227 130 179 | E3 82 B3 | 239 189 186 | EF BD BA | 227 129 148 | E3 81 94 | 227 130 180 | E3 82 B4 |
| Numeric character reference | こ | こ | コ | コ | ｺ | ｺ | ご | ご | ゴ | ゴ |
| Shift JIS | 130 177 | 82 B1 | 131 82 | 83 52 | 186 | BA | 130 178 | 82 B2 | 131 83 | 83 53 |
| EUC-JP | 164 179 | A4 B3 | 165 179 | A5 B3 | 142 186 | 8E BA | 164 180 | A4 B4 | 165 180 | A5 B4 |
| GB 18030 | 164 179 | A4 B3 | 165 179 | A5 B3 | 132 49 152 50 | 84 31 98 32 | 164 180 | A4 B4 | 165 180 | A5 B4 |
| EUC-KR / UHC | 170 179 | AA B3 | 171 179 | AB B3 | 170 180 | AA B4 | 171 180 | AB B4 | ||
| Big5 (non-ETEN kana) | 198 183 | C6 B7 | 199 75 | C7 4B | 198 184 | C6 B8 | 199 76 | C7 4C | ||
| Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS) | 198 249 | C6 F9 | 199 175 | C7 AF | 198 250 | C6 FA | 199 176 | C7 B0 | ||
| Preview | こ゚ | コ゚ | ㋙ | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER BIDAKUON NGO | KATAKANA LETTER BIDAKUON NGO | CIRCLED KATAKANA KO | |||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 12371 12442 | U+3053+309A | 12467 12442 | U+30B3+309A | 13017 | U+32D9 |
| UTF-8 | 227 129 147 227 130 154 | E3 81 93 E3 82 9A | 227 130 179 227 130 154 | E3 82 B3 E3 82 9A | 227 139 153 | E3 8B 99 |
| Numeric character reference | こ゚ | こ゚ | コ゚ | コ゚ | ㋙ | ㋙ |
| Shift JIS-2004 | 130 246 | 82 F6 | 131 152 | 83 98 | ||
| EUC-JIS-2004 | 164 251 | A4 FB | 165 251 | A5 FB | ||
Sources and credits
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Images, from Wikimedia Commons:
- Hiragana こ stroke order animation.gif by Sirgazil, CC0
- Katakana コ stroke order animation.gif by Sirgazil, CC0
- こ-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 2.5
- コ-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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