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{{also|そ}}
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==Japanese==
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===Pronunciation===
{{ja-pron}}

===Etymology 1===
{{Hira-dakuten|そ|so}}

====Syllable====
{{ja-pos|syllable}}

# {{ja-kana-def}}

=====See also=====
* {{list:Hiragana/ja}}

===Etymology 2===
{{etymid|ja|particle}}
From {{inh|ja|ojp|-}}. Previously unvoiced as ''so'' until the {{w|Nara period}}. <!--Considerations: write そ in the {{inh}}? Link to Reconstruction:Proto-Japonic/sə? -->

====Particle====
{{wikipedia|Japanese_particles#zo|zo}}
{{ja-pos|particle}}

# {{lb|ja|colloquial|men's speech}} a particle used at the end of sentences, which indicates [[certainty]], [[emphasis]] or even a [[warning]] or a [[threat]].
#: {{ja-usex|やる '''ぞ'''！|I'm gonna do it!}}
#: {{ja-usex|これで済まない'''ぞ'''！|これ で すまない '''ぞ'''！|It doesn't end here!}}
#* {{quote-book
|ja
|year=1925
|title={{l|ja||「紋」}}
|author=w:Denji Kuroshima
}}
#*: {{ja-usex|よそで飯を盗んで食うたりするんじゃない'''ぞ'''|よそ で めし を ぬすんで くうたり する ん じゃ ない '''ぞ'''|You may not steal and eat food in other houses, '''ever'''.}}
# a particle used as a suffix to an interrogative word to mark it [[indefinite]].
#* {{quote-book
|ja
|year=1909
|title={{l|ja||南蛮寺門前}}
|author=w:Mokutaro Kinoshita
}}
#*: {{ja-usex|何%処'''ぞ'''で歌うたふ声が聞えるやうやのう|ど%こ'''ぞ''' で うた うたふ こえ が きこえる やう や のう|It feels like we can hear voice of singers '''some'''where.|rom=dokozo de uta utau koe ga kikoeru yō ya nō}}
# {{lb|ja|archaic}} a particle which makes a question emphasized or [[rhetorical]], used at the end of a sentence or appended to an interrogative word.
#* {{quote-book
|ja
|year=1932
|title={{l|ja||和算の社会的・芸術的特性について}}
|author=w:Yoshio Mikami
}}
#*: {{ja-usex|単%純%化を貴ぶ精%神が無くして、なんぞ、この種のことが起きて来よう'''ぞ'''。|たん%じゅん%か を とうとぶ せい%しん が なくして、なんぞ、この しゅ の こと が おきて こよう '''ぞ'''。|Without the spirit of treasuring simplification, how '''could''' this kind of things '''ever''' happen.}}
# {{lb|ja|predicative|men's speech}} {{n-g|[[topic]] [[particle]] used for [[emphasis]]}}
#: {{ja-usex|これ'''ぞ'''辞%典の本%当の力だ‼|^これ '''ぞ''' じ%てん の ほん%とう の ちから だ‼|This is the true power of a dictionary!!}}

=====Derived terms=====
* {{ja-r|良くぞ|よく ぞ}}
* {{ja-r|知る人ぞ知る|しる ひと ぞ しる}}
* {{ja-r|ここ ぞ と ばかり に}}