Nu (kana)

nu
hiragana
japanese hiragana nu		 katakana
japanese katakana nu
transliterationnu
hiragana origin奴
katakana origin奴
Man'yōgana奴 努 怒 農 濃 沼 宿
spelling kana沼津のヌ (Numazu no nu)
unicodeU+306C, U+30CC
braille⠍
kana gojūon
warayamahanatasakaa
wiri(yi)mihinichishikii
(wu)ruyumufunutsusukuu
were(ye)mehenetesekee
woroyomohonotosokoo
n
Kana modifiers and marks
Multi-moraic kana

Nu, ぬ in hiragana, or ヌ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana each representing one mora. Both hiragana and katakana are made in two strokes and represent [nɯ]. They are both derived from the Chinese character 奴. In the Ainu language, katakana ヌ can be written as small ㇴ to represent a final n, and is interchangeable with the standard katakana ン.

Form Rōmaji Hiragana Katakana
Normal n-
(な行 na-gyō) 		nu ぬ ヌ
nuu, nwu
nū 		ぬう, ぬぅ
ぬー 		ヌウ, ヌゥ
ヌー
Other additional forms
Form (nw-)
Rōmaji Hiragana Katakana
nwa ぬぁ, ぬゎ ヌァ, ヌヮ
nwi ぬぃ ヌィ
(nwu) (ぬぅ) (ヌゥ)
nwe ぬぇ ヌェ
nwo ぬぉ ヌォ

Stroke order

Stroke order in writing ぬ
Stroke order in writing ぬ
Stroke order in writing ヌ
Stroke order in writing ヌ
Stroke order in writing ぬ
Stroke order in writing ヌ

Other communicative representations

  • Full Braille representation
ぬ / ヌ in Japanese Braille
ぬ / ヌ
nu		 ぬう / ヌー
nū		 Other kana based on Braille ぬ
にゅ / ニュ
nyu		 にゅう / ニュー
nyū
⠍ (braille pattern dots-134) ⠍ (braille pattern dots-134)⠒ (braille pattern dots-25) ⠈ (braille pattern dots-4)⠍ (braille pattern dots-134) ⠈ (braille pattern dots-4)⠍ (braille pattern dots-134)⠒ (braille pattern dots-25)
Character information
Preview ぬ ヌ ﾇ ㇴ ㋦
Unicode name HIRAGANA LETTER NU KATAKANA LETTER NU HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER NU KATAKANA LETTER SMALL NU CIRCLED KATAKANA NU
Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex dec hex dec hex
Unicode 12396 U+306C 12492 U+30CC 65415 U+FF87 12788 U+31F4 13030 U+32E6
UTF-8 227 129 172 E3 81 AC 227 131 140 E3 83 8C 239 190 135 EF BE 87 227 135 180 E3 87 B4 227 139 166 E3 8B A6
Numeric character reference ぬ ぬ ヌ ヌ ﾇ ﾇ ㇴ ㇴ ㋦ ㋦
Shift JIS (plain)[1] 130 202 82 CA 131 107 83 6B 199 C7
Shift JIS-2004[2] 130 202 82 CA 131 107 83 6B 199 C7 131 240 83 F0
EUC-JP (plain)[3] 164 204 A4 CC 165 204 A5 CC 142 199 8E C7
EUC-JIS-2004[4] 164 204 A4 CC 165 204 A5 CC 142 199 8E C7 166 242 A6 F2
GB 18030[5] 164 204 A4 CC 165 204 A5 CC 132 49 153 53 84 31 99 35 129 57 188 56 81 39 BC 38
EUC-KR[6] / UHC[7] 170 204 AA CC 171 204 AB CC
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[8] 198 208 C6 D0 199 100 C7 64
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[9] 199 83 C7 53 199 200 C7 C8

References

  1. ^ Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-03-08]. "Shift-JIS to Unicode".
  2. ^ Project X0213 (2009-05-03). "Shift_JIS-2004 (JIS X 0213:2004 Appendix 1) vs Unicode mapping table".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ Unicode Consortium; IBM. "EUC-JP-2007". International Components for Unicode.
  4. ^ Project X0213 (2009-05-03). "EUC-JIS-2004 (JIS X 0213:2004 Appendix 3) vs Unicode mapping table".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ Standardization Administration of China (SAC) (2005-11-18). GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set.
  6. ^ Unicode Consortium; IBM. "IBM-970". International Components for Unicode.
  7. ^ Steele, Shawn (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". Microsoft / Unicode Consortium.
  8. ^ Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-02-11]. "BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".
  9. ^ van Kesteren, Anne. "big5". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.