So (kana)
Character of the Japanese writing system
So (hiragana: そ, katakana: ソ) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. Both represent [so]. The version of this character used by computer fonts does not match the handwritten form that most native Japanese writers use. The native way is shown here as the alternative form.
01Alternative forms
Kana so can have different shapes depending on the font or handwriting style.
02Other communicative representations
| Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code |
| 算盤のソ Soroban no "So" |
▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄ ⓘ |
| Japanese Navy Signal Flag | Japanese semaphore | Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling) | Braille dots-2456 Japanese Braille |
- Full Braille representation
| そ / ソ in Japanese Braille | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| そ / ソ so | ぞ / ゾ zo | そう / ソー sō | ぞう / ゾー zō | Other kana based on Braille そ | |||
| しょ / ショ sho | じょ / ジョ jo | しょう / ショー shō | じょう / ジョー jō | ||||
| Preview | そ | ソ | ｿ | ぞ | ゾ | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER SO | KATAKANA LETTER SO | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER SO | HIRAGANA LETTER ZO | KATAKANA LETTER ZO | |||||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 12381 | U+305D | 12477 | U+30BD | 65407 | U+FF7F | 12382 | U+305E | 12478 | U+30BE |
| UTF-8 | 227 129 157 | E3 81 9D | 227 130 189 | E3 82 BD | 239 189 191 | EF BD BF | 227 129 158 | E3 81 9E | 227 130 190 | E3 82 BE |
| Numeric character reference | そ | そ | ソ | ソ | ｿ | ｿ | ぞ | ぞ | ゾ | ゾ |
| Shift JIS | 130 187 | 82 BB | 131 92 | 83 5C | 191 | BF | 130 188 | 82 BC | 131 93 | 83 5D |
| EUC-JP | 164 189 | A4 BD | 165 189 | A5 BD | 142 191 | 8E BF | 164 190 | A4 BE | 165 190 | A5 BE |
| GB 18030 | 164 189 | A4 BD | 165 189 | A5 BD | 132 49 152 55 | 84 31 98 37 | 164 190 | A4 BE | 165 190 | A5 BE |
| EUC-KR / UHC | 170 189 | AA BD | 171 189 | AB BD | 170 190 | AA BE | 171 190 | AB BE | ||
| Big5 (non-ETEN kana) | 198 193 | C6 C1 | 199 85 | C7 55 | 198 194 | C6 C2 | 199 86 | C7 56 | ||
| Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS) | 199 68 | C7 44 | 199 185 | C7 B9 | 199 69 | C7 45 | 199 186 | C7 BA | ||
| Preview | ㋞ | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | CIRCLED KATAKANA SO | |
| Encodings | decimal | hex |
| Unicode | 13022 | U+32DE |
| UTF-8 | 227 139 158 | E3 8B 9E |
| Numeric character reference | ㋞ | ㋞ |
Sources and credits
This article is adapted from the Wikipedia article “So (kana)”, written by its contributors and licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Fathomly has changed the layout, removed citation markers, navigation and maintenance notices, and adjusted punctuation. This adapted version is shared under the same license. For references, see the original article.
Images, from Wikimedia Commons:
- Hiragana そ stroke order animation.gif by Sirgazil, CC0
- Katakana ソ stroke order animation.gif by Sirgazil, CC0
- ソ-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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