そ,inhiragana,orソ,inkatakana,is one of the Japanesekana,each of which represents onemora.Both represent[so].The version of this character used by computer fonts does not match the handwritten form that most native Japanese writers use. The native way is shown here as the alternative form.
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| transliteration | so | ||
| translit. withdakuten | zo | ||
| hiragana origin | Tằng | ||
| katakana origin | Tằng | ||
| Man'yōgana | Tông tổ tố tô mười sở tắc từng tăng tăng ghét y bối uyển | ||
| Voiced Man'yōgana | Tục tự tự tặc tồn như cuốc | ||
| spelling kana | そろばん の ソ (Sorobanno "so" ) | ||
| Note: These Man'yōgana originally represented morae with one of two different vowel sounds, which merged in later pronunciation. | |||
| Form | Rōmaji | Hiragana | Katakana |
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| Normals- (さ hànhsa-gyō) |
so | そ | ソ |
| sou soo sō |
そう, そぅ そお, そぉ そー |
ソウ, ソゥ ソオ, ソォ ソー | |
| Additiondakutenz- (ざ hànhza-gyō) |
zo | ぞ | ゾ |
| zou zoo zō |
ぞう, ぞぅ ぞお, ぞぉ ぞー |
ゾウ, ゾゥ ゾオ, ゾォ ゾー |
Stroke order
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Alternative form
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Other communicative representations
edit| Japanese radiotelephony Alpha bet | Wabun code |
| そろばん の ソ Soroban no "So" |
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| Japanese Navy Signal Flag | Japanese semaphore | Japanese manual syllabary(fingerspelling) | Braille dots-2456 Japanese Braille |
- Full Braille representation
| そ / ソ inJapanese Braille | |||||||
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| そ / ソ so |
ぞ / ゾ zo |
そう / ソー sō |
ぞう / ゾー zō |
Other kana based onBrailleそ | |||
| しょ / ショ sho |
じょ / ジョ jo |
しょう / ショー shō |
じょう / ジョー jō | ||||
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| Preview | そ | ソ | ｿ | ぞ | ゾ | |||||
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| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER SO | KATAKANA LETTER SO | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER SO | HIRAGANA LETTER ZO | KATAKANA LETTER ZO | |||||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 12381 | U+305D | 12477 | U+30BD | 65407 | U+FF7F | 12382 | U+305E | 12478 | U+30BE |
| UTF-8 | 227 129 157 | E3 81 9D | 227 130 189 | E3 82 BD | 239 189 191 | EF BD BF | 227 129 158 | E3 81 9E | 227 130 190 | E3 82 BE |
| Numeric character reference | そ |
そ |
ソ |
ソ |
ｿ |
ｿ |
ぞ |
ぞ |
ゾ |
ゾ |
| Shift JIS[1] | 130 187 | 82 BB | 131 92 | 83 5C | 191 | BF | 130 188 | 82 BC | 131 93 | 83 5D |
| EUC-JP[2] | 164 189 | A4 BD | 165 189 | A5 BD | 142 191 | 8E BF | 164 190 | A4 BE | 165 190 | A5 BE |
| GB 18030[3] | 164 189 | A4 BD | 165 189 | A5 BD | 132 49 152 55 | 84 31 98 37 | 164 190 | A4 BE | 165 190 | A5 BE |
| EUC-KR[4]/UHC[5] | 170 189 | AA BD | 171 189 | AB BD | 170 190 | AA BE | 171 190 | AB BE | ||
| Big5(non-ETEN kana)[6] | 198 193 | C6 C1 | 199 85 | C7 55 | 198 194 | C6 C2 | 199 86 | C7 56 | ||
| Big5(ETEN/HKSCS)[7] | 199 68 | C7 44 | 199 185 | C7 B9 | 199 69 | C7 45 | 199 186 | C7 BA | ||
| Preview | ㋞ | |
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| Unicode name | CIRCLED KATAKANA SO | |
| Encodings | decimal | hex |
| Unicode | 13022 | U+32DE |
| UTF-8 | 227 139 158 | E3 8B 9E |
| Numeric character reference | ㋞ |
㋞ |
References
edit- The Compact Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Andrew Nelson,John H Haig)Tuttle Publishing1999
- ^Unicode Consortium(2015-12-02) [1994-03-08]."Shift-JIS to Unicode".
- ^Unicode Consortium;IBM."EUC-JP-2007".International Components for Unicode.
- ^Standardization Administration of China (SAC) (2005-11-18).GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set.
- ^Unicode Consortium;IBM."IBM-970".International Components for Unicode.
- ^Steele, Shawn (2000)."cp949 to Unicode table".Microsoft/Unicode Consortium.
- ^Unicode Consortium(2015-12-02) [1994-02-11]."BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".
- ^van Kesteren, Anne."big5".Encoding Standard.WHATWG.