ぬ

Character	ぬ
Unicode name	HIRAGANA LETTER NU
Codepoint	U+306C

See also め, and -ぬ

Japanese

Stroke order

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /nu͍/

Syllable

ぬ (Hepburn romanization nu)

1. The hiragana syllable ぬ (nu), whose equivalent in katakana is ヌ (nu). It is the twenty-third syllable of the gojūon order, and its position in gojūon tables is な行う段 (NA-gyō, U-dan; “row NA, section U”).

Related terms

• For a list of words starting with ぬ (nu) see: Special:Allpages/ぬ

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]

See also

• -ない (-nai)
• -ません (-masen)
• -ん (-n)
• -ず (-zu)
• -ぬ (-nu)

Usage notes

• ぬ may also refer to the Japanese suffix -ぬ (-nu, “not; indicates completion”).