Ku (kana)

"く" redirects here. For the bopomofo, see ㄑ.

Character of the Japanese writing system

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Transliteration| ku
Translit. with dakuten| gu
Translit. with handakuten| (ngu)
Hiragana origin| 久
Katakana origin| 久
Man'yōgana| 久 九 口 丘 苦 鳩 来
Voiced man'yōgana| 具 遇 隅 求 愚 虞
Spelling kana| クラブのク
(Kurabu no "ku")
kana gojūon

| wa| ra| ya| ma| ha| na| ta| sa| ka| a

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wi| ri| (yi)| mi| hi| ni| chi| shi| ki| i
(wu)| ru| yu| mu| fu| nu| tsu| su| ku| u
we| re| (ye)| me| he| ne| te| se| ke| e
wo| ro| yo| mo| ho| no| to| so| ko| o
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Kana modifiers and marks

* sokuonfu (gemination)
* yōon (palatalization)
* chōonpu (vowel lengthener)
* Iteration marks
* dakuten/handakuten (voiced & semi-voiced marks)

Multi-moraic kana

* iu
* kashiko
* koto
* sama
* shite
* toki
* tomo
* nari
* mairasesoro
* yori

* v
* t
* e

く, in hiragana or ク in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. Both represent [kɯ] and their shapes come from the kanji 久.

This kana may have a dakuten added, transforming it into ぐ in hiragana, グ in katakana and gu in Hepburn romanization. The dakuten's addition also changes the sound of the mora represented, to [ɡɯ] in initial positions and varying between [ŋɯ] and [ɣɯ] in the middle of words.

A handakuten (゜) does not occur with ku in normal Japanese text, but it may be used by linguists to indicate a nasal pronunciation [ŋɯ].

In the Ainu language, the katakana ク can be written as small ㇰ, representing a final k sound as in アイヌイタㇰ Ainu itak (Ainu language).[1] This was developed along with other extended katakana to represent sounds in Ainu that are not found in standard Japanese katakana.

Forms  | Rōmaji | Hiragana | Katakana

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Normal k-
(か行 ka-gyō)  | ku | く  | ク
kuu, kwu
kū | くう, くぅ
くー  | クウ, クゥ

Addition dakuten g-
(が行 ga-gyō)  | gu | ぐ  | グ
guu, gwu
gū | ぐう, ぐぅ
ぐー  | グウ, グゥ

Other additional forms

Form A (kw-) | Romaji | Hiragana | Katakana

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kwa | くぁ, くゎ  | クァ, クヮ
kwi | くぃ  | クィ
(kwu) | (くぅ)  | (クゥ)
kwe | くぇ  | クェ
kwo | くぉ  | クォ
Form B (gw-) | Romaji | Hiragana | Katakana

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gwa | ぐぁ, ぐゎ  | グァ, グヮ
gwi | ぐぃ  | グィ
(gwu) | (ぐぅ)  | (グゥ)
gwe | ぐぇ  | グェ
gwo | ぐぉ  | グォ

## Stroke order

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Stroke order in writing く | Stroke order in writing ク

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Stroke order in writing く Stroke order in writing ク

## Other communicative representations

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Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code

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クラブのク
Kurabu no "Ku" |  ▄ ▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ⓘ

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Japanese Navy Signal Flag | Japanese semaphore | Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling)  | Braille dots-146
Japanese Braille

* Full Braille representation

く / ク in Japanese Braille

く / ク
ku | ぐ / グ
gu | くう / クー
kū | ぐう / グー
gū | Other kana based on Braille く
きゅ / キュ
kyu | ぎゅ / ギュ
gyu | きゅう / キュー
kyū | ぎゅう / ギュー
gyū
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* Computer encodings

Character information  Preview | く | ク | ｸ | ㇰ | ㋗

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Unicode name  | HIRAGANA LETTER KU  | KATAKANA LETTER KU  | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER KU  | KATAKANA LETTER SMALL KU  | CIRCLED KATAKANA KU
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex
Unicode | 12367 | U+304F | 12463 | U+30AF | 65400 | U+FF78 | 12784 | U+31F0 | 13015 | U+32D7
UTF-8 | 227 129 143 | E3 81 8F | 227 130 175 | E3 82 AF | 239 189 184 | EF BD B8 | 227 135 176 | E3 87 B0 | 227 139 151 | E3 8B 97
Numeric character reference | &#12367; | &#x304F; | &#12463; | &#x30AF; | &#65400; | &#xFF78; | &#12784; | &#x31F0; | &#13015; | &#x32D7;
Shift JIS (plain)[2] | 130 173 | 82 AD | 131 78 | 83 4E | 184 | B8 |  |  |  |
Shift JIS-2004[3] | 130 173 | 82 AD | 131 78 | 83 4E | 184 | B8 | 131 236 | 83 EC |  |
EUC-JP (plain)[4] | 164 175 | A4 AF | 165 175 | A5 AF | 142 184 | 8E B8 |  |  |  |
EUC-JIS-2004[5] | 164 175 | A4 AF | 165 175 | A5 AF | 142 184 | 8E B8 | 166 238 | A6 EE |  |
GB 18030[6] | 164 175 | A4 AF | 165 175 | A5 AF | 132 49 152 48 | 84 31 98 30 | 129 57 188 52 | 81 39 BC 34 |  |
EUC-KR[7] / UHC[8] | 170 175 | AA AF | 171 175 | AB AF |  |  |  |  |  |
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[9] | 198 179 | C6 B3 | 199 71 | C7 47 |  |  |  |  |  |
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[10] | 198 245 | C6 F5 | 199 171 | C7 AB |  |  |  |  |  |
Character information  Preview | ぐ | グ | く゚ | ク゚

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Unicode name  | HIRAGANA LETTER GU  | KATAKANA LETTER GU  | HIRAGANA LETTER BIDAKUON NGU[11] | KATAKANA LETTER BIDAKUON NGU[11]
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex
Unicode | 12368 | U+3050 | 12464 | U+30B0 | 12367 12442 | U+304F+309A | 12463 12442 | U+30AF+309A
UTF-8 | 227 129 144 | E3 81 90 | 227 130 176 | E3 82 B0 | 227 129 143 227 130 154 | E3 81 8F E3 82 9A | 227 130 175 227 130 154 | E3 82 AF E3 82 9A
Numeric character reference | &#12368; | &#x3050; | &#12464; | &#x30B0; | &#12367;&#12442; | &#x304F;&#x309A; | &#12463;&#12442; | &#x30AF;&#x309A;
Shift JIS (plain)[2] | 130 174 | 82 AE | 131 79 | 83 4F |  |  |  |
Shift JIS-2004[3] | 130 174 | 82 AE | 131 79 | 83 4F | 130 247 | 82 F7 | 131 153 | 83 99
EUC-JP (plain)[4] | 164 176 | A4 B0 | 165 176 | A5 B0 |  |  |  |
EUC-JIS-2004[5] | 164 176 | A4 B0 | 165 176 | A5 B0 | 164 249 | A4 F9 | 165 249 | A5 F9
GB 18030[6] | 164 176 | A4 B0 | 165 176 | A5 B0 |  |  |  |
EUC-KR[7] / UHC[8] | 170 176 | AA B0 | 171 176 | AB B0 |  |  |  |
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[9] | 198 180 | C6 B4 | 199 72 | C7 48 |  |  |  |
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[10] | 198 246 | C6 F6 | 199 172 | C7 AC |  |  |  |

## References

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Look up く, ぐ, ク, or グ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

1. ^ "Katakana Phonetic Extensions – Test for Unicode support in Web browsers".
2. ^ a b Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-03-08]. "Shift-JIS to Unicode".
3. ^ a b Project X0213 (2009-05-03). "Shift_JIS-2004 (JIS X 0213:2004 Appendix 1) vs Unicode mapping table".`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
4. ^ a b Unicode Consortium; IBM. "EUC-JP-2007". International Components for Unicode.
5. ^ a b Project X0213 (2009-05-03). "EUC-JIS-2004 (JIS X 0213:2004 Appendix 3) vs Unicode mapping table".`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
6. ^ a b Standardization Administration of China (SAC) (2005-11-18). GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set.
7. ^ a b Unicode Consortium; IBM. "IBM-970". International Components for Unicode.
8. ^ a b Steele, Shawn (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". Microsoft / Unicode Consortium.
9. ^ a b Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-02-11]. "BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".
10. ^ a b van Kesteren, Anne. "big5". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.
11. ^ a b Unicode Consortium. "Unicode Named Character Sequences". Unicode Character Database.

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