O (kana)
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| transliteration | o | |||
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| spelling kana | 大阪のオ (Ōsaka no "o") |
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In Japanese writing, the kana お (hiragana) and オ (katakana) occupy the fifth place, between え and か, in the modern Gojūon (五十音) system of collating kana. In the Iroha, they occupy the 27th, between の and く. In the table at right (ordered by columns, from right to left), お lies in the first column (あ行, "column A") and the fifth row (お段, "row O"). Both represent [o].
お and オ originate, via man'yōgana, from the kanji 於.
Scaled-down versions of the kana (ぉ, ォ) are used to express morae foreign to the Japanese language, such as フォ (fo).
The hiragana お is made with three strokes:
The katakana オ is made with three strokes:
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