ん

Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

Wikipedia

Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Syllable 2 Japanese 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Hiragana character 2.2.1 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
ん Unicode: U+3093Katakana: ンHepburn romanization: n, n'Nihon-shiki romanization: n, n'Polivanov cyrillization: н, мJapanese braille: ⠴

[edit] Syllable

ん

1. The hiragana syllable without particular 行 (row) or 段 (section) in a gojūon table, positioned at a corner.

---

[edit] Japanese

Stroke order

[edit] Etymology

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

[edit] Hiragana character

ん (romaji n)

1. The /ɴ/ syllable.
2. The forty-eighth and final character in the gojūon ordering of hiragana. The previous character is を. The equivalent katakana character is ン.

[edit] Related terms

• No normal Japanese words begin with ん (n). See Special:Allpages/ん.