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ku
hiragana katakana
transliteration	ku
translit. with dakuten	gu
translit. with handakuten	(ngu)
hiragana origin	久
katakana origin	久
Man'yōgana	久 九 口 丘 苦 鳩 来
Voiced Man'yōgana	具 遇 隅 求 愚 虞
spelling kana	クラブのク (Kurabu no "ku")

く, in hiragana or ク in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. Both represent and their shapes come from the kanji 久.

This kana may have a dakuten added, transforming it into ぐ in hiragana, グ in katakana and gu in Hepburn romanization. The dakuten's addition also changes the sound of the mora represented, to in initial positions and varying between and in the middle of words.

A handakuten (゜) does not occur with ku in normal Japanese text, but it may be used by linguists to indicate a nasal pronunciation .

In the Ainu language, the katakana ク can be written as small ㇰ, representing a final k sound as in アイヌイタㇰ Ainu itak (Ainu language). This was developed along with other extended katakana to represent sounds in Ainu that are not found in standard Japanese katakana.

Stroke order

Other communicative representations

Japanese Navy Signal Flag	Japanese semaphore	Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling)	Braille dots-146 Japanese Braille

• Full Braille representation

く / ク in Japanese Braille
く / ク ku	ぐ / グ gu	くう / クー kū	ぐう / グー gū	Other kana based on Braille く
				きゅ / キュ kyu	ぎゅ / ギュ gyu	きゅう / キュー kyū	ぎゅう / ギュー gyū

• Computer encodings

References

1. "Katakana Phonetic Extensions – Test for Unicode support in Web browsers".
2. ^ Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) . "Shift-JIS to Unicode".
3. ^ Project X0213 (2009-05-03). "Shift_JIS-2004 (JIS X 0213:2004 Appendix 1) vs Unicode mapping table".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
4. ^ Unicode Consortium; IBM. "EUC-JP-2007". International Components for Unicode.
5. ^ Project X0213 (2009-05-03). "EUC-JIS-2004 (JIS X 0213:2004 Appendix 3) vs Unicode mapping table".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
6. ^ Standardization Administration of China (SAC) (2005-11-18). GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set.
7. ^ Unicode Consortium; IBM. "IBM-970". International Components for Unicode.
8. ^ Steele, Shawn (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". Microsoft / Unicode Consortium.
9. ^ Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) . "BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".
10. ^ van Kesteren, Anne. "big5". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.
11. ^ Unicode Consortium. "Unicode Named Character Sequences". Unicode Character Database.

• Specific kana