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hiragana

katakana

hiragana origin

katakana origin

U+1B11F, U+1B122

wa	ra	ya	ma	ha	na	ta	sa	ka	a
wi	ri	(yi)	mi	hi	ni	chi	shi	ki	i
(wu)	ru	yu	mu	fu	nu	tsu	su	ku	u
we	re	(ye)	me	he	ne	te	se	ke	e
wo	ro	yo	mo	ho	no	to	so	ko	o
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Find sources: "Wu" kana – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (December 2020)

Wu (hiragana: 𛄟, katakana: 𛄢) is a Japanese mora or a kana used to write it, though it has never been in standard use.^[1]

^ Iannacone, Jake (2020). "Reply to The Origin of Hiragana /wu/ 平仮名のわ行うの字源に対する新たな発見"

Wu (kana)