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[edit] Translingual

The Hiragana script
Additional symbols
Unicode: U+305DKatakana: Hepburn romanization: soNihon-shiki romanization: soPolivanov cyrillization: соJapanese braille:

[edit] Syllable

  1. The hiragana syllable at さ行お段 (row SA, section O) in a gojūon table.

[edit] Japanese

Stroke order
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[edit] Etymology

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

[edit] Hiragana character

(romaji so)

  1. The /so/ syllable.
  2. The fifteenth character in the gojūon ordering of hiragana. The previous character is and the next character is . The equivalent katakana character is .

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[edit] Derived terms

[edit] Kanji reading

(romaji so)

  1. : ancestor
  2. : prime (number)