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[edit] Translingual

The Katakana script
Katakana halfwidth syllables
Additional symbols
Unicode: U+30BDHiragana: Hepburn romanization: soNihon-shiki romanization: soPolivanov cyrillization: соJapanese braille:

[edit] Syllable

  1. The katakana syllable at サ行オ段 (row SA, section O) in a gojūon table.

[edit] Ainu

[edit] Noun

(so)

  1. waterfall, cascade

[edit] Japanese

Stroke order
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[edit] Etymology

Simplified in the Heian period from the man'yōgana kanji .

[edit] Katakana character

(romaji so)

  1. The [so] phoneme, typically in words of non-Japanese origin.
  2. The fifteenth character in the gojūon ordering of katakana. The previous character is and the next character is . The equivalent hiragana character is .

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