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Character  ゆ 
Unicode name HIRAGANA LETTER YU
Codepoint U+3086

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[edit] Etymology 1

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

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[edit] Syllable

(Hepburn romanization yu)

  1. The hiragana syllable  (yu), whose equivalent in katakana is  (yu). It is the thirty-seventh syllable of the gojūon order, and its position in gojūon tables is (YA-gyō, U-dan; “row YA, section U”).
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[edit] Etymology 2

Attaches to the irrealis form of verbs. Conjugates as a lower bigrade: ye, ye, yu, yuru, yure, -.

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(romaji yu)

  1. expresses passiveness
  2. expresses possibility
  3. expresses natural, spontaneous occurrence
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