ゆ

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Syllable 2 Japanese 2.1 Etymology 1 2.1.1 Hiragana character 2.2 Etymology 2 2.2.1 Inflectional suffix 2.2.2 Derived terms 2.2.3 Related terms

[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 ーゝゞゟ
ゆ Unicode: U+3086Katakana: ユHepburn romanization: yuNihon-shiki romanization: yuPolivanov cyrillization: юJapanese braille: ⠬

[edit] Syllable

ゆ

1. The hiragana syllable at や行う段 (row YA, section U) in a gojūon table.

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[edit] Japanese

Stroke order

[edit] Etymology 1

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

[edit] Hiragana character

ゆ (romaji yu)

1. The /yu/ syllable.
2. The thirty-seventh character in the gojūon ordering of hiragana. The previous character is や and the next character is よ. The equivalent katakana character is ユ.

[edit] Etymology 2

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

[edit] Inflectional suffix

ゆ (romaji yu)

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

[edit] Derived terms

• あらゆる
• 所謂
• 見える
• 聞こえる
• 覚える

[edit] Related terms

• For a list of words starting with ゆ (yu) see: Special:Allpages/ゆ