No (kana)

no
hiragana
japanese hiragana no
katakana
japanese katakana no
transliterationno
hiragana origin
katakana origin
Man'yōgana努 怒 野 乃 能 笑 荷
spelling kana野原のノ (Nohara no no)
unicodeU+306E, U+30CE
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Note: These Man'yōgana originally represented morae with one of two different vowel sounds, which merged in later pronunciation

, in hiragana, and , in katakana, are Japanese kana, both representing one mora. In the gojūon system of ordering of Japanese morae, it occupies the 25th position, between ね (ne) and は (ha). It occupies the 26th position in the iroha ordering. Both represent the sound [no]. The katakana form is written similar to the Kangxi radical 丿, radical 4.

Form Rōmaji Hiragana Katakana
Normal n-
(な行 na-gyō)
no
nou
noo
のう, のぅ
のお, のぉ
のー
ノウ, ノゥ
ノオ, ノォ
ノー