So (kana)
そ, in hiragana, or ソ, in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. 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.
| Form | Rōmaji | Hiragana | Katakana |
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| Normal s- (さ行 sa-gyō) |
so | そ | ソ |
| sou soo sō, soh |
そう, そぅ そお, そぉ そー |
ソウ, ソゥ ソオ, ソォ ソー | |
| Addition dakuten z- (ざ行 za-gyō) |
zo | ぞ | ゾ |
| zou zoo zō, zoh |
ぞう, ぞぅ ぞお, ぞぉ ぞー |
ゾウ, ゾゥ ゾオ, ゾォ ゾー |
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| transliteration | so | |||
| translit. with dakuten | zo | |||
| hiragana origin | 曽 | |||
| katakana origin | 曽 | |||
| spelling kana | そろばんのソ (Soroban no "so") | |||
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Stroke order
 Stroke order in writing そ |
 Stroke order in writing ソ |
Stroke order in writing そ
Stroke order in writing ソ
Alternative form
Alternate Hiragana shape
Other communicative representations
| Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | 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 in Japanese Braille | |||||||
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| そ / ソ so | ぞ / ゾ zo | そう / ソー sō | ぞう / ゾー zō | Other kana based on Braille 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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| Character | 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 | decimal | hex | decimal | hex | decimal | hex | decimal | 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 | 130 187 | 82 BB | 131 92 | 83 5C | 191 | BF | 130 188 | 82 BC | 131 93 | 83 5D |
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Look up そ, ぞ, ソ, or ゾ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
References
- The Compact Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Andrew Nelson, John H Haig) Tuttle Publishing 1999
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