ゔ

See also: う

ゔ U+3094, ゔ HIRAGANA LETTER VU Composition: う [U+3046] + ◌゙ [U+3099] ← ん [U+3093] Hiragana ゕ → [U+3095]

Japanese

Stroke order

Etymology

The hiragana character う (u) with a dakuten (゛). The hiragana ゔ, ゕ and ゖ were introduced for hiragana-katakana correspondence with ヴ, ヵ and ヶ in the Japanese input method in Fujitsu OASYS and then registered in JIS X 0213.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [vɯ̟ᵝ]
• IPA^(key): [bɯ̟ᵝ] (some speakers, especially older people)

Syllable

ゔ • (vu) 

1. (rare) The hiragana syllable ゔ (vu). Its equivalent in katakana is ヴ (vu).

Usage notes

• This is a relatively recent addition to kana usage to represent the non-native sound vu. As such, this is only found in borrowed words. Many speakers, especially older people, may pronounce this more as bu, [bɯ̟ᵝ].
• The sound vu appears almost exclusively in borrowed words, and is therefore normally written in katakana as ヴ (vu). This hiragana character is used much more rarely, and exists in computer encodings primarily for correspondence with the katakana form.

See also

• (Hiragana) 平仮名; あぁ, いぃ, うぅゔ, えぇ, おぉ, かゕが, きぎ, くぐ, けゖげ, こご, さざ, しじ, すず, せぜ, そぞ, ただ, ちぢ, つっづ, てで, とど, な, に, ぬ, ね, の, はばぱ, ひびぴ, ふぶぷ, へべぺ, ほぼぽ, ま, み, む, め, も, やゃ, 𛀆, ゆゅ, 𛀁, よょ, ら, り, る, れ, ろ, わゎ, ゐ, 𛄟 (𛄟), ゑ, を, ん, ー, ゝ, ゞ, ゟ