Yo (kana)

yo
hiragana
japanese hiragana yo
katakana
japanese katakana yo
transliterationyo
hiragana origin
katakana origin
Man'yōgana用 容 欲 夜 与 余 四 世 代 吉
spelling kana吉野のヨ Yoshino no "yo"
unicodeU+3088, U+30E8
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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 or in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. The hiragana is made in two strokes, while the katakana in three. Both represent [jo].

When small and preceded by an -i kana, this kana represents a palatalization of the preceding consonant sound with the [o] vowel (see yōon).[1]

In mathematics, よ is sometimes used to represent the Yoneda embedding.[2]

Forms Rōmaji Hiragana Katakana
Normal y-
(や行 ya-gyō)
yo
you
yoo
よう, よぅ
よお, よぉ
よー
ヨウ, ヨゥ
ヨオ, ヨォ
ヨー
  1. ^ Jim Gleeson (2013). "Contracted sounds". Japanese Hiragana: An Introductory Japanese Language Workbook. Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 9781462913978.
  2. ^ "Yoneda embedding". nLab. Retrieved 6 July 2019.