Koto (kana)

koto
hiragana
japanese hiragana koto
katakana
japanese katakana koto
transliterationkoto
hiragana originこと
katakana origin

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.

In Unicode

Character information
Preview
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