Koto (kana)
Encyclopedia
, read as koto, is a typographic ligature in the Japanese language
, consisting of a combination of the katakana
graphs of (ko) and (to), and thus represents their combined sound, コト (koto). It is drawn with one stroke. It is uncommon and used only in vertical writing.
Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
, consisting of a combination of the katakana
Katakana
is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji, and in some cases the Latin alphabet . The word katakana means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana scripts are derived from components of more complex kanji. Each kana represents one mora...
graphs of (ko) and (to), and thus represents their combined sound, コト (koto). It is drawn with one stroke. It is uncommon and used only in vertical writing.
In Unicode
| Character | Unicode Unicode Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems... | JIS X 0213 JIS X 0213 JIS X 0213 is a Japanese Industrial Standard defining coded character sets for encoding the characters used in Japan. This standard extends JIS X 0208. The first version was published in 2000 and revised in 2004 . As well as adding a number of special characters, characters with diacritic marks,... | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| ヿ | U+30FF | 1-2-24 | コト koto |