Wu (kana)
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transliteration | wu | ||
hiragana origin | 汙/于 | ||
katakana origin | 汙 | ||
unicode | U+1B11F, U+1B122 |
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This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. (December 2020) |
Wu (hiragana: 𛄟, katakana: 𛄢) is a Japanese mora or a kana used to write it, though it has never been in standard use.[1]
History
[edit]It is presumed that 𛄟 would have represented /
Characters
[edit]In the Edo period and the Meiji period, some Japanese linguists tried to separate kana u and kana wu. The shapes of characters differed with each linguist. 𛄟 and 𛄢 were just two of many shapes.
They were phonetic symbols to fill in the blanks of the gojuon table. Japanese people didn't separate them in normal writing.
- u
- wu
- Traditional kana
- Constructed kana
These suggestions weren't accepted.
Unicode
[edit]This kana has been encoded into Unicode 14.0 since September 14, 2021 as HIRAGANA LETTER ARCHAIC WU (U+1B11F), and KATAKANA LETTER ARCHAIC WU (U+1B122).
Notes
[edit]- ^ /
β ̞/ corresponds to what is typically represented as /w/ in modern Japanese, which is still phonetically a bilabial approximant.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Iannacone, Jake (2020). "Reply to The Origin of Hiragana /wu/
平仮名 のわ行 うの字源 に対 する新 たな発見 " - ^ Gross, Abraham (2020-01-05), Proposal to Encode Missing Japanese Kana (PDF), p. 1
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