ご

Character	ご
Unicode name	HIRAGANA LETTER GO
Codepoint	U+3054

Japanese

Stroke order

Pronunciation

• IPA: /go/, [ɡo̞]

Etymology 1

The hiragana character こ (ko) with a dakuten (゛).

Syllable

ご (Hepburn romanization go)

1. The hiragana syllable ご (go), whose equivalent in katakana is ゴ (go).

Related terms

• For a list of words starting with ご (go), see: Special:Allpages/ご

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

Etymology 2

Reading of various kanji.

Noun

ご (romaji go)

1. 語: language
2. 棊, 棋, 碁: (board games) a board game
3. 期: a specific time; death (as in "one's time has come")
4. 伍: a military squad (usu. of five people); a group
5. 午: noon; midnight
6. 豆油, 豆汁: a slurry of boiled and mashed soybeans used as the raw material for making tofu, dyes, and oil paints

Numeral

ご (romaji go)

1. 五: five
2. 伍: less-common alternate for 五

Prefix

ご (romaji go)

1. 御: honorific prefix used before on'yomi nouns

Proper noun

ご (romaji go)

1. 呉: Wu China

Suffix

ご (romaji -go)

1. 語: language of, -ese
2. 後: after