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[edit] Translingual

The Hiragana script
あぁ かゕが さざ ただ な はばぱ ま やゃ ら わゎ ん
いぃ きぎ しじ ちぢ に ひびぴ み り ゐ
うぅゔ くぐ すず つっづ ぬ ふぶぷ む ゆゅ る
えぇ けゖげ せぜ てで ね へべぺ め れ ゑ
おぉ こご そぞ とど の ほぼぽ も よょ ろ を
Additional symbols
の
Unicode: U+306EKatakana: ノHepburn romanization: noNihon-shiki romanization: noPolivanov cyrillization: ноJapanese braille: ⠎

[edit] Syllable

の

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

[edit] Japanese

Stroke order
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[edit] Etymology 1

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

[edit] Hiragana character

の (romaji no)

  1. The /no/ syllable.
  2. The twenty-fifth character in the gojūon ordering of hiragana. The previous character is ね and the next character is は. The equivalent katakana character is ノ.
[edit] Related terms

[edit] Etymology 2

/no2/ *[nə] > /no/ [no].

[edit] Particle

の (romaji no)

  1. genitive case marker
    私の意見
    わたしのいけん
    watashi no iken
    my opinion
  2. Indicates identity (apposition):
    大統領のブッシュ氏
    だいとうりょうのブッシュし
    Daitōryō no Busshu-shi
    Mr Bush, the President
    山田の馬鹿野郎！
    やまだのばかやろう！
    Yamada no bakayarō!
    Yamada, you stupid jerk!
  3. Noun modifier
    数学の分野
    すうがくのぶんや
    sūgaku no bun'ya
    the field of mathematics
    緑の車
    みどりのくるま
    midori no kuruma
    a green car
  4. A feminine speech sentence ending that indicates emphasis or a question, depending on intonation
    可能じゃないの？
    ふかのうじゃないの？
    kanō ja nai no?
    It's not possible?
  5. Nominalizes an adjective, verb, or phrase
[edit] See also
  • Chinese: 的 (de), 之 (zhī)
  • Korean: 의 (eui)
[edit] Usage notes

Historically written as 乃 or 之.

[edit] Kanji reading

の (romaji no)

  1. 野: field
  2. 述: express, tell
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