Koto (kana)

Not to be confused with Tironian et.

koto
hiragana katakana
transliteration	koto
hiragana origin	こと
katakana origin	事

Koto (hiragana: , katakana: ヿ) is one of the Japanese kana. It is a polysyllabic kana which represents two morae. Both the hiragana and katakana forms represent [koto]. is a combination (ligature) of the hiragana graphs of ko (こ) and to (と), while ヿ originates from the Chinese character 事.

The katakana koto is as a shorthand used in shinkatakana (真片仮名) (an obsolete writing style that exclusively used katakana instead of hiragana).^[1][2]

In Unicode

Character information

Preview	ヿ
Unicode name	KATAKANA DIGRAPH KOTO
Encodings	decimal	hex
Unicode	12543	U+30FF
UTF-8	227 131 191	E3 83 BF
Numeric character reference	ヿ	ヿ
JIS X 0213	34 56	22 38

See also

• Ko (kana)
• To (kana)
• Yori (kana)
• Katakana

References

1. 福澤諭吉; 中上川彦次郎 [in Japanese] (1882-05-13). 帝室論 [imperial theory] (in Japanese). 時事新報社. doi:10.11501/783521. ndldm:783521.
2. "鐵道略則 - Wikisource". ja.wikisource.org. Retrieved 2020-01-18.