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yu
yu
Hiragana;	Katakana;
Transliteration	yu
Hiragana origin	由Category:Articles containing Japanese-language text
Katakana origin	由Category:Articles containing Japanese-language text
Man'yōgana	由喩遊湯
Spelling kana	弓矢のユ; Yumiya no "yu"Category:Articles containing Japanese-language text
Unicode	U+3086, U+30E6Category:Articles containing Japanese-language text
Braille	Category:Articles containing Japanese-language text

Category:Articles with short description Category:Short description is different from Wikidata

ゆ, in hiragana or ユ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represents one mora. Both the hiragana and katakana forms are written in two strokes and represent the sound [jɯ]Category:Pages with plain IPA.

When small and preceded by an -i kana, this kana represents a palatalization of the preceding consonant sound with the [ɯ]Category:Pages with plain IPA vowel (see yōon).^[1]

Forms	Rōmaji	Hiragana	Katakana
Normal y- (や行 ya-gyō)	yu	ゆ	ユ
Normal y- (や行 ya-gyō)	yuu yū	ゆうゆー	ユウユー

Stroke order

Other communicative representations

Japanese radiotelephony alphabet	Wabun code
弓矢のユCategory:Articles containing Japanese-language text Yumiya no "Yu"	▄▄▄ ▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄


Japanese Navy Signal Flag	Japanese semaphore	Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling)	Braille dots-346 Japanese Braille

Full Braille representation

ゆ / ユ in Japanese Braille
ゆ / ユ yu	ゆう / ユー yū	ゅ/ュ Yōon*	゛ゅ/゛ュ Dakuten + Yōon*	゜ゅ/゜ュ Handakuten + Yōon*

* The yōon characters ゅ and ュ are encoded in Japanese Braille by prefixing "-u" kana (e.g. Ku, Su) with a yōon braille indicator, which can be combined with the "Dakuten" or "Handakuten" braille indicators for the appropriate consonant sounds.

Computer encodings

Character information
Preview	ゆ		ユ		ﾕ		㋴
Unicode name	HIRAGANA LETTER YU		KATAKANA LETTER YU		HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER YU		CIRCLED KATAKANA YU
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	12422	U+3086	12518	U+30E6	65429	U+FF95	13044	U+32F4
UTF-8	227 130 134	E3 82 86	227 131 166	E3 83 A6	239 190 149	EF BE 95	227 139 180	E3 8B B4
Numeric character reference	ゆ	ゆ	ユ	ユ	ﾕ	ﾕ	㋴	㋴
Shift JIS^[2]	130 228	82 E4	131 134	83 86	213	D5
EUC-JP^[3]	164 230	A4 E6	165 230	A5 E6	142 213	8E D5
GB 18030^[4]	164 230	A4 E6	165 230	A5 E6	132 49 154 57	84 31 9A 39
EUC-KR^[5] / UHC^[6]	170 230	AA E6	171 230	AB E6
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)^[7]	198 234	C6 EA	199 126	C7 7E
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)^[8]	199 109	C7 6D	199 226	C7 E2

Character information
Preview	ゅ		ュ		ｭ
Unicode name	HIRAGANA LETTER SMALL YU		KATAKANA LETTER SMALL YU		HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER SMALL YU
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	12421	U+3085	12517	U+30E5	65389	U+FF6D
UTF-8	227 130 133	E3 82 85	227 131 165	E3 83 A5	239 189 173	EF BD AD
Numeric character reference	ゅ	ゅ	ュ	ュ	ｭ	ｭ
Shift JIS^[2]	130 227	82 E3	131 133	83 85	173	AD
EUC-JP^[3]	164 229	A4 E5	165 229	A5 E5	142 173	8E AD
GB 18030^[4]	164 229	A4 E5	165 229	A5 E5	132 49 150 57	84 31 96 39
EUC-KR^[5] / UHC^[6]	170 229	AA E5	171 229	AB E5
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)^[7]	198 233	C6 E9	199 125	C7 7D
Big5 (ETEN/> / HKSCS)^[8]	199 108	C7 6C	199 225	C7 E1

References

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

Andrew Nelson, John H. Haig (1999). The Compact Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary. Tuttle Publishing.

External links

Category:Specific kana

[1] Jim Gleeson (2013). "Contracted sounds". Japanese Hiragana: An Introductory Japanese Language Workbook. Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 9781462913978.

[shift_jis-utc-2] 1 2 Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-03-08]. "Shift-JIS to Unicode".

[euc-jp-2007-3] 1 2 Unicode Consortium; IBM. "EUC-JP-2007". International Components for Unicode.

[gb18030-4] 1 2 Standardization Administration of China (SAC) (2005-11-18). GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set.

[euc-kr-ibm970-5] 1 2 Unicode Consortium; IBM. "IBM-970". International Components for Unicode.

[uhc-ms949-6] 1 2 Steele, Shawn (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". Microsoft / Unicode Consortium.

[big5noneten-utc-7] 1 2 Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-02-11]. "BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".

[big5hkscs-html5-8] 1 2 van Kesteren, Anne. "big5". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.

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