の

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese possessive marker の (no).

の

1. Nonstandard form of 的.
   • 朱力亞の手作包, →ISBN
   • 打造個人化の網站 XOOPS 2.3.x 完全實戰手冊, →ISBN
   • 梅問題の超質感商品攝影手法大公開, →ISBN

の

1. Nonstandard form of 之.
   • 決戰時空の塔

Not used in running Chinese text in any region. It may be used as a shorthand, or to achieve visual, Japanese-style effect such as on signs, book titles, pamphlet covers or signboards, similar to faux Cyrillic.

• IPA^(key): [no̞]

Derived in the Heian period from writing the man'yōgana kanji 乃 in the cursive sōsho style.

の (romaji no)

1. The hiragana syllable の (no). Its equivalent in katakana is ノ (no). It is the twenty-fifth syllable in the gojūon order; its position is な行お段 (na-gyō o-dan, “row na, section o”).

• (Hiragana) 平仮名; あぁ, いぃ, うぅゔ, えぇ, おぉ, かゕが, きぎ, くぐ, けゖげ, こご, さざ, しじ, すず, せぜ, そぞ, ただ, ちぢ, つっづ, てで, とど, な, に, ぬ, ね, の, はばぱ, ひびぴ, ふぶぷ, へべぺ, ほぼぽ, ま, み, む, め, も, やゃ, ゆゅ, よょ, ら, り, る, れ, ろ, わゎ, ゐ, ゑ, を, ん, ー, ゝ, ゞ, ゟ

⟨no₂⟩ → */nə/ → /no/

From Old Japanese,[1][2] from Proto-Japonic *nə. Appears in common use in the Kojiki (712 CE), distinct from 野 (⟨no₁⟩ → no, “field”). Compare Middle Chinese 能 (MC nəŋ).

May be an apophonic form of Old Japanese particle な (na). This other form also appears in a similar function. However, its usage was already restricted to certain set expressions by the time of the earliest Japanese texts in the Nara period, with no clear examples of productive use.[1][2]

In Old Japanese, there are three particles used productively to mark one noun modifying another:

• つ (tsu), as in 沖つ島守 (oki tsu shimamori, “the caretaker or watchman of an island of the offing [offshore]”) or 黄泉つ国 (yomo tsu kuni, “the country of the underworld”).
• が (ga), as in 関ヶ原 (Sekigahara, a placename, parseable as seki “checkpoint, barrier” + ga [possessive] + hara “field, plain”)
• の (no), as in 山処能一本薄 (Yamato no hitomoto susuki, “the sawtooth sedge of Yamato”, a line from one of the songs in the Kojiki)

The apophonic form な (na) persisted only as an element in certain compounds, such as 港 (minato, “harbor”, generally parsed as mi “water” + na [possessive] + to “door, gate” → port, landing, harbor), or 掌 (tanagokoro, “palm of the hand”, parsed as ta “hand” + na [possessive] + kokoro “heart, center”, changing to gokoro due to rendaku).

• (obsolete) 乃, 之

の (rōmaji no)

1. genitive case marker
   1. indicates possession: of, -'s

      私 (わたし)の意 (い)見 (けん)

      watashi no iken

      my opinion

   2. indicates identity or apposition

      大統領 (だいとうりょう)のブッシュ氏 (し)

      daitōryō no Busshu-shi

      the President, Mr. Bush

      山田 (やまだ)の馬 (ば)鹿 (か)野 (や)郎 (ろう)！

      Yamada no baka yarō!

      Yamada, you stupid jerk!

      山田 (やまだ)の奴 (やつ)

      Yamada no yatsu

      that dude Yamada

   3. a noun, adverb, or phrase modifier

      数学 (すうがく)の分 (ぶん)野 (や)

      sūgaku no bun'ya

      the field of mathematics

      緑 (みどり)の車 (くるま)

      midori no kuruma

      green car

      全 (すべ)ての商 (しょう)品 (ひん)

      subete no shōhin

      all goods

      母 (はは)への手 (て)紙 (がみ)

      haha e no tegami

      letter to mom

2. nominative case marker in a relative clause

   眉毛 (まゆげ)の濃 (こ)い人 (ひと)

   mayuge no koi hito

   a man whose eyebrow is thick

   Synonym: が (ga)

3. a sentence ending that indicates emphasis or a question, depending on intonation

   不 (ふ)可 (か)能 (のう)じゃないの？

   Fukanō ja nai no?

   Isn't it impossible?

   聞 (き)いてんの？

   Kiiten no?

   Are you listening?

4. Nominalizes an adjective, verb, or phrase

   食 (た)べるのが大好 (だいす)きだ。

   Taberu no ga daisuki da.

   I like eating very much.

• In senses 3 and 4, だ (da) changes to the attributive な (na) when followed by の (no).

  可 (か)能 (のう)なの?

  kanō na no?

  Is it possible?

  色 (いろ)がきれいなのがいい。

  Iro ga kirei na no ga ii.

  I prefer something with a beautiful color.

• For sense 3, use of の in declarative sentences for emphasis carries a female undertone (cf. わ).
• の is sometimes weakened into ん (n) in fixed compounds, such as 桜ん坊 (sakuranbō, “Japanese cherry”) or 飴ん棒 (amenbō, “lollipop”).

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 的 (de), 之 (zhī)

• Korean: 의 (ui)

Readings of various kanji.

の (rōmaji no)

1. 野, 埜: a plain, field; the hidden part of a structure
2. 篦: the shaft of an arrow; Pseudosasa japonica, a species of bamboo
3. 幅, 布: a unit of measurement for cloth breadth, approximately 36 centimeters

の (rōmaji no-)

1. 野: wild; (person) lacking a political post

の (rōmaji No)

1. 埜, 濃於, 野, 野應, 盧: a surname
2. 野: a female given name
3. 野: a place name