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Character  う 
Unicode name HIRAGANA LETTER U
Codepoint U+3046

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Stroke order

Stroke order in writing う
Stroke order in writing う
Stroke order in writing ウ
Stroke order in writing ウ
Stroke order
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[edit] Etymology

Derived in the Heian period from writing the man'yōgana kan'u in the cursive sōsho style.

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Syllable

(Hepburn romanization u)

  1. The hiragana syllable  (u), whose equivalent in katakana is  (u). It is the third syllable of the gojūon order, and its position in gojūon tables is (A-gyō, U-dan; “row A, section U”).

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[edit] Noun

(romaji u)

  1. : cormorant

[edit] Kanji reading

(romaji u)

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