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Etymology
Simplified in the Heian period from the man'yōgana kanji 於, taken from the left part of the character and the first and third strokes are combined into a line.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [o̞]Category:Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation#お
Category:Japanese terms with audio pronunciation#おAudio: (file)
Syllable
Category:Japanese katakana#オオ • (oCategory:Japanese links with redundant wikilinks#オCategory:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#オ)
Category:Japanese lemmas#おCategory:Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys#おCategory:Japanese syllables#おCategory:Japanese entries with incorrect language header#おCategory:Pages with entries#オCategory:Pages with 1 entry#オ- The katakana syllable オ (o). Its equivalent in hiragana is お (o). It is the fifth syllable in the gojūon order; its position is ア行オ段 (a-gyō o-dan, “row a, section o”).
Usage notes
The katakana syllabary is used primarily for transcription of foreign language words into Japanese and the writing of gairaigo (loan words), as well as to represent onomatopoeias, technical and scientific terms, and the names of plants, animals, and minerals. It is also occasionally used in some words for emphasis, or to ease reading; katakana may be preferred for words becoming buried in the text if they are written under their canonical form in hiragana. Names of Japanese companies, as well as certain Japanese language words such as colloquial terms, are also sometimes written in katakana rather than the other systems. Formerly, female first names would often be written in katakana.