お

Character	お
Unicode name	HIRAGANA LETTER O
Codepoint	U+304A

Japanese

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Stroke order

See also お-

Etymology 1

Derived in the Heian period from writing the man'yōgana kanji 於 in the cursive sōsho style.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /o/
• Homophone: を

Syllable

お (Hepburn romanization o)

1. 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

• For a list of words starting with お (o) see: Special:Allpages/お

See also

• (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 ^[edit]

Etymology 2

Noun

お (romaji o)

1. 尾: tail, brush, train
2. 汚: dirty

Prefix

お (romaji o-)

1. 御: honorific prefix to make a word polite

Alternative forms

• ご