Back كُو (كانا) Arabic ခု (ခန) BLK く (lizherenn) BR Ku (kana) Catalan Ku (Kana) German Ku (kanao) EO く Spanish Ku (kana) Finnish く French く GAN
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| transliteration | ku | ||
| translit. with dakuten | 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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く, in hiragana or ク in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. Both represent [kɯ] and their shapes come from the kanji 久.
This kana may have a dakuten added, transforming it into ぐ in hiragana, グ in katakana and gu in Hepburn 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.
A handakuten (゜) does not occur with ku in normal Japanese text, but it may be used by linguists to indicate a nasal pronunciation [ŋɯ].
In the Ainu 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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| Normal k- (か行 ka-gyō) |
ku | く | ク |
| kuu, kwu kū |
くう, くぅ くー |
クウ, クゥ クー | |
| Addition dakuten g- (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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