Yo (kana)

よ, in hiragana or ヨ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. The hiragana is made in two strokes, while the katakana in three. Both represent [jo].

yo
hiragana
japanese hiragana yo		 katakana
japanese katakana yo
transliterationyo
hiragana origin与
katakana origin與
Man'yōgana用 容 欲 夜 与 余 四 世 代 吉
spelling kana吉野のヨ Yoshino no "yo"
unicodeU+3088, U+30E8
braille⠜
Note: These Man'yōgana originally represented syllables with one of two different vowel sounds, which merged in later pronunciation
kana gojūon
warayamahanatasakaa
wiriyimihinichishikii
wuruyumufunutsusukuu
wereyemehenetesekee
woroyomohonotosokoo
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Kana modifiers and marks
Multi-syllabic kana

When small and preceded by an -i kana, this kana represents a palatalization of the preceding consonant sound with the [o] vowel (see yōon).[1]

Forms Rōmaji Hiragana Katakana
Normal y-
(や行 ya-gyō)		 yo よ ヨ
you
yoo
yō		 よう, よぅ
よお, よぉ
よー		 ヨウ, ヨゥ
ヨオ, ヨォ
ヨー

Stroke order
Stroke order in writing よ
Stroke order in writing よ
Stroke order in writing ヨ
Stroke order in writing ヨ
Stroke order in writing よ
Stroke order in writing ヨ

Other communicative representations
  • Full Braille representation
よ / ヨ in Japanese Braille
よ / ヨ
yo		よう / ヨー
yō		ょ/ョ
Yōon*		゛ょ/゛ョ
Dakuten + Yōon*		゜ょ/゜ョ
Handakuten + Yōon*
⠜ (braille pattern dots-345) ⠜ (braille pattern dots-345) ⠒ (braille pattern dots-25) ⠈ (braille pattern dots-4) ⠘ (braille pattern dots-45) ⠨ (braille pattern dots-46)

* The yōon characters ょ and ョ are encoded in Japanese Braille by prefixing "-o" kana (e.g. Ko, So) with a yōon braille indicator, which can be combined with the "Dakuten" or "Handakuten" braille indicators for the appropriate consonant sounds.

Character information
Previewよヨﾖ㋵
Unicode name HIRAGANA LETTER YO KATAKANA LETTER YO HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER YO CIRCLED KATAKANA YO
Encodingsdecimalhexdechexdechexdechex
Unicode12424U+308812520U+30E865430U+FF9613045U+32F5
UTF-8227 130 136E3 82 88227 131 168E3 83 A8239 190 150EF BE 96227 139 181E3 8B B5
Numeric character referenceよよヨヨﾖﾖ㋵㋵
Shift JIS[2]130 23082 E6131 13683 88214D6
EUC-JP[3]164 232A4 E8165 232A5 E8142 2148E D6
GB 18030[4]164 232A4 E8165 232A5 E8132 49 155 4884 31 9B 30
EUC-KR[5] / UHC[6]170 232AA E8171 232AB E8
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[7]198 236C6 EC199 162C7 A2
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[8]199 111C7 6F199 228C7 E4
Character information
Previewょョｮ
Unicode name HIRAGANA LETTER SMALL YO KATAKANA LETTER SMALL YO HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER SMALL YO
Encodingsdecimalhexdechexdechex
Unicode12423U+308712519U+30E765390U+FF6E
UTF-8227 130 135E3 82 87227 131 167E3 83 A7239 189 174EF BD AE
Numeric character referenceょょョョｮｮ
Shift JIS[2]130 22982 E5131 13583 87174AE
EUC-JP[3]164 231A4 E7165 231A5 E7142 1748E AE
GB 18030[4]164 231A4 E7165 231A5 E7132 49 151 4884 31 97 30
EUC-KR[5] / UHC[6]170 231AA E7171 231AB E7
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[7]198 235C6 EB199 161C7 A1
Big5 (ETEN/> / HKSCS)[8]199 110C7 6E199 227C7 E3

References
  1. Jim Gleeson (2013). "Contracted sounds". Japanese Hiragana: An Introductory Japanese Language Workbook. Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 9781462913978.
  2. Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-03-08]. "Shift-JIS to Unicode".
  3. Unicode Consortium; IBM. "EUC-JP-2007". International Components for Unicode.
  4. Standardization Administration of China (SAC) (2005-11-18). GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set.
  5. Unicode Consortium; IBM. "IBM-970". International Components for Unicode.
  6. Steele, Shawn (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". Microsoft / Unicode Consortium.
  7. Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-02-11]. "BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".
  8. van Kesteren, Anne. "big5". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.

See also
Look up よ, ょ, ヨ, or ョ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
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