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[edit] Translingual

The Hiragana script
Additional symbols
Unicode: U+3086Katakana: Hepburn romanization: yuNihon-shiki romanization: yuPolivanov cyrillization: юJapanese braille:

[edit] Syllable

  1. The hiragana syllable at や行う段 (row YA, section U) 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 in the cursive sōsho style.

[edit] Hiragana character

(romaji yu)

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

[edit] Etymology 2

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

[edit] Inflectional suffix

(romaji yu)

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

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