お
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| Character | お |
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| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER O |
| Codepoint | U+304A |
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See also お-
Etymology 1 [edit]
Derived in the Heian period from writing the man'yōgana kanji 於 in the cursive sōsho style.
Pronunciation [edit]
Syllable [edit]
お (Hepburn romanization o)
- The hiragana syllable お (o), whose equivalent in katakana is オ (o). It is the fifth syllable of the gojūon order, and its position in gojūon tables is あ行あ段 (A-gyō, A-dan; “row A, section A”).
Related terms [edit]
- For a list of words starting with お (o) see: Special:Allpages/お
See also [edit]
- (Hiragana) 平仮名; あぁ, いぃ, うぅゔ, えぇ, おぉ, かゕが, きぎ, くぐ, けゖげ, こご, さざ, しじ, すず, せぜ, そぞ, ただ, ちぢ, つっづ, てで, とど, な, に, ぬ, ね, の, はばぱ, ひびぴ, ふぶぷ, へべぺ, ほぼぽ, ま, み, む, め, も, やゃ, ゆゅ, よょ, ら, り, る, れ, ろ, わゎ, ゐ, ゑ, を, ん, ー, ゝ, ゞ, ゟ
Etymology 2 [edit]
Noun [edit]
お (romaji o)
Prefix [edit]
お (romaji o-)
- 御: honorific prefix to make a word polite
