Nu (kana)

nu
transliteration nu
hiragana origin 奴
katakana origin 奴

Nu, ぬ in hiragana, or ヌ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana each representing one mora. Both hiragana and katakana are made in two strokes and represent [nu͍]. They are both derived from the Chinese character 奴. In the Ainu language, katakana ヌ can be written as small ㇴ to represent a final n, and is interchangeable with the standard katakana ン.

Form Rōmaji Hiragana Katakana
Normal n-
(な行 na-gyō)		 nu ぬ ヌ
nuu
nū		 ぬう, ぬぅ
ぬー		 ヌウ, ヌゥ
ヌー
Other additional forms
Form (nw-)
Rōmaji Hiragana Katakana
nwa ぬぁ ヌァ
nwi ぬぃ ヌィ
(nwu) (ぬぅ) (ヌゥ)
nwe ぬぇ ヌェ
nwo ぬぉ ヌォ

Stroke order

Stroke order in writing ぬ
Stroke order in writing ぬ
Stroke order in writing ヌ
Stroke order in writing ヌ
Stroke order in writing ぬ
Stroke order in writing ヌ

Other representations

Characterぬヌﾇㇴ
Unicode nameHIRAGANA LETTER NUKATAKANA LETTER NUHALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER NUKATAKANA LETTER SMALL NU
Encodingsdecimalhexdecimalhexdecimalhexdecimalhex
Unicode12396U+306C12492U+30CC65415U+FF8712788U+31F4
UTF-8227 129 172E3 81 AC227 131 140E3 83 8C239 190 135EF BE 87227 135 180E3 87 B4
Numeric character referenceぬぬヌヌﾇﾇㇴㇴ
Shift JIS130 20282 CA131 10783 6B199C7
  • Braille
ぬ / ヌ in Japanese Braille
ぬ / ヌ
nu		ぬう / ヌー
nū		Other kana based on Braille ぬ
にゅ / ニュ
nyu		にゅう / ニュー
nyū
⠍ (braille pattern dots-134) ⠍ (braille pattern dots-134) ⠒ (braille pattern dots-25) ⠈ (braille pattern dots-4) ⠍ (braille pattern dots-134) ⠈ (braille pattern dots-4) ⠍ (braille pattern dots-134) ⠒ (braille pattern dots-25) 

In the manga "Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo" ぬ is Jelly Jiggler's favorite character.

See also

め : me (kana)


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