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| Transliteration | ku | ||
| Translit. withdakuten | gu | ||
| Translit. with handakuten | (ngu) | ||
| Hiragana origin | 久 | ||
| Katakana origin | 久 | ||
| Man'yōgana | 久 九 口 丘 苦 鳩 来 | ||
| Voiced man'yōgana | 具 遇 隅 求 愚 虞 | ||
| Spelling kana | クラブのク (Kurabu no "ku") | ||
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Ku (hiragana: く,katakana: ク) is one of the Japanesekana, which each represent onemora. Both represent[kɯ] and their shapes come from thekanji 久.
This kana may have adakuten added, transforming it intoぐ in hiragana,グ in katakana andgu inHepburn romanization. The dakuten's addition also changes the sound of the mora represented, to[ɡɯ] in initial positions and varying between[ŋɯ] and[ɣɯ] in the middle of words.
Ahandakuten (゜) does not occur withku in normal Japanese text, but it may be used by linguists to indicate anasal pronunciation[ŋɯ].
In theAinu language, the katakana ク can be written as small ㇰ, representing a final k sound as in アイヌイタㇰAinu itak (Ainu language).[1] This was developed along with other extended katakana to represent sounds in Ainu that are not found in standard Japanese katakana.
| Forms | Rōmaji | Hiragana | Katakana |
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| Normalk- (か行ka-gyō) | ku | く | ク |
| kuu, kwu kū | くう, くぅ くー | クウ, クゥ クー | |
| Additiondakuteng- (が行ga-gyō) | gu | ぐ | グ |
| guu, gwu gū | ぐう, ぐぅ ぐー | グウ, グゥ グー |
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| Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code |
| クラブのク Kurabu no "Ku" | ▄ ▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ⓘ |
| Japanese Navy Signal Flag | Japanese semaphore | Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling) | Braille dots-146 Japanese Braille |
| く / ク inJapanese Braille | |||||||
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| く / ク ku | ぐ / グ gu | くう / クー kū | ぐう / グー gū | Other kana based onBraille く | |||
| きゅ / キュ kyu | ぎゅ / ギュ gyu | きゅう / キュー kyū | ぎゅう / ギュー gyū | ||||
| Preview | く | ク | ク | ㇰ | ㋗ | |||||
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| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER KU | KATAKANA LETTER KU | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER KU | KATAKANA LETTER SMALL KU | CIRCLED KATAKANA KU | |||||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 12367 | U+304F | 12463 | U+30AF | 65400 | U+FF78 | 12784 | U+31F0 | 13015 | U+32D7 |
| UTF-8 | 227 129 143 | E3 81 8F | 227 130 175 | E3 82 AF | 239 189 184 | EF BD B8 | 227 135 176 | E3 87 B0 | 227 139 151 | E3 8B 97 |
| Numeric character reference | く | く | ク | ク | ク | ク | ㇰ | ㇰ | ㋗ | ㋗ |
| Shift JIS (plain)[2] | 130 173 | 82 AD | 131 78 | 83 4E | 184 | B8 | ||||
| Shift JIS-2004[3] | 130 173 | 82 AD | 131 78 | 83 4E | 184 | B8 | 131 236 | 83 EC | ||
| EUC-JP (plain)[4] | 164 175 | A4 AF | 165 175 | A5 AF | 142 184 | 8E B8 | ||||
| EUC-JIS-2004[5] | 164 175 | A4 AF | 165 175 | A5 AF | 142 184 | 8E B8 | 166 238 | A6 EE | ||
| GB 18030[6] | 164 175 | A4 AF | 165 175 | A5 AF | 132 49 152 48 | 84 31 98 30 | 129 57 188 52 | 81 39 BC 34 | ||
| EUC-KR[7] /UHC[8] | 170 175 | AA AF | 171 175 | AB AF | ||||||
| Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[9] | 198 179 | C6 B3 | 199 71 | C7 47 | ||||||
| Big5 (ETEN /HKSCS)[10] | 198 245 | C6 F5 | 199 171 | C7 AB | ||||||
| Preview | ぐ | グ | く゚ | ク゚ | ||||
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| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER GU | KATAKANA LETTER GU | HIRAGANA LETTER BIDAKUON NGU[11] | KATAKANA LETTER BIDAKUON NGU[11] | ||||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 12368 | U+3050 | 12464 | U+30B0 | 12367 12442 | U+304F+309A | 12463 12442 | U+30AF+309A |
| UTF-8 | 227 129 144 | E3 81 90 | 227 130 176 | E3 82 B0 | 227 129 143 227 130 154 | E3 81 8F E3 82 9A | 227 130 175 227 130 154 | E3 82 AF E3 82 9A |
| Numeric character reference | ぐ | ぐ | グ | グ | く | く | ク | ク |
| Shift JIS (plain)[2] | 130 174 | 82 AE | 131 79 | 83 4F | ||||
| Shift JIS-2004[3] | 130 174 | 82 AE | 131 79 | 83 4F | 130 247 | 82 F7 | 131 153 | 83 99 |
| EUC-JP (plain)[4] | 164 176 | A4 B0 | 165 176 | A5 B0 | ||||
| EUC-JIS-2004[5] | 164 176 | A4 B0 | 165 176 | A5 B0 | 164 249 | A4 F9 | 165 249 | A5 F9 |
| GB 18030[6] | 164 176 | A4 B0 | 165 176 | A5 B0 | ||||
| EUC-KR[7] /UHC[8] | 170 176 | AA B0 | 171 176 | AB B0 | ||||
| Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[9] | 198 180 | C6 B4 | 199 72 | C7 48 | ||||
| Big5 (ETEN /HKSCS)[10] | 198 246 | C6 F6 | 199 172 | C7 AC | ||||
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