Ho (kana)
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{{Infobox kana
|Hiragana image = Japanese_Hiragana_kyokashotai_HO.svg
|Katakana image = Japanese_Katakana_kyokashotai_HO.svg
|Transliteration = ho
|Transliteration Dakuten = bo
|Transliteration Handakuten = po
|Hiragana Manyogana = 保
|Katakana Manyogana = 保
|Other Manyogana = 凡 方 抱 朋 倍 保 宝 富 百 帆 穂 本
|Dakuten Manyogana = 煩 菩 番 蕃
|Braille = File:Japanese Ho Braille.svg
|Unicode = U+307B, U+30DB
|flag1=1|flag2=2|flag3=10
|footnote = This mora was historically pronounced as "po".
|Spelling=保険のホ Hoken no "ho"
}}
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ほ, in hiragana, or ホ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. Both are made in four strokes and both represent {{IPA|[ho]}}. In the Sakhalin dialect of the Ainu language, ホ can be written as small ㇹ to represent a final h sound after an o sound (オㇹ oh).
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!Form |
| rowspan="2"|Normal h- (ほ行 ha-gyō) |ho |ほ |ホ |
|---|
| hou hoo hō |ほう |ホウ |
| rowspan="2"|Addition dakuten b- (ぼ行 ba-gyō) |bo |ぼ |ボ |
| bou boo bō |ぼう, ぼぅ |ボウ, ボゥ |
| rowspan="2"|Addition handakuten p- (ぽ行 pa-gyō) |po |ぽ |ポ |
| pou poo pō |ぽう, ぽぅ |ポウ, ポゥ |
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!Other additional forms |
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! colspan="3" |Form (hw-) |
| Romaji |
|---|
| hwa
|ほぁ, ほゎ |ホァ, ホヮ |
| hwi
|ほぃ |ホィ |
| (hu, hwu)
|ほぅ |ホゥ |
| hwe
|ほぇ |ホェ |
| hwo
|ほぅぉ |ホゥォ |
|}
Stroke order
Other communicative representations
{{Letter reps|lang=Japanese|radio={{lang|ja|保険のホ}}|radio_trans=Hoken no "Ho"|morse=-・・ |morse_sound=D morse code.ogg|flag_img=ICS Delta.svg|sign_img=HO-jsl-yubimoji.png|sem1=Japanese Semaphore Basic Stroke 1.svg|sem2=Japanese Semaphore Basic Stroke 2.svg|sem3=Japanese Semaphore Basic Stroke 10.svg|braille_img=Japanese Ho Braille.svg|braille=⠮}}
- Full Braille representation
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| colspan=12| ほ / ホ in Japanese Braille | |||||||||||
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| rowspan=2| ほ / ホ ho | rowspan=2| ぼ / ボ bo | rowspan=2| ぽ / ポ po | rowspan=2| ほう / ホー hō | rowspan=2| ぼう / ボー bō | rowspan=2| ぽう / ポー pō | colspan=6| Other kana based on Braille ほ | |||||
| ひょ / ヒョ hyo | びょ / ビョ byo | ぴょ / ピョ pyo | ひょう / ヒョー hyō | びょう / ビョー byō | ぴょう / ピョー pyō | ||||||
| {{Braille cell|type=kana|size=30px|ほ}} | {{Braille cell|type=kana|size=30px|5|ほ}} | {{Braille cell|type=kana|size=30px|6|ほ}} | {{Braille cell|type=kana|size=30px|ほ|25}} | {{Braille cell|type=kana|size=30px|5|ほ|25}} | {{Braille cell|type=kana|size=30px|6|ほ|25}} | {{Braille cell|type=kana|size=30px|4|ほ}} | {{Braille cell|type=kana|size=30px|45|ほ}} | {{Braille cell|type=kana|size=30px|46|ほ}} | {{Braille cell|type=kana|size=30px|4|ほ|25}} | {{Braille cell|type=kana|size=30px|45|ほ|25}} | {{Braille cell|type=kana|size=30px|46|ほ|25}} |
{{charmap
|307B|name1=Hiragana Letter Ho
|30DB|name2=Katakana Letter Ho
|FF8E|name3=Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ho
|31F9|name4=Katakana Letter Small Ho
|32ED|name5=Circled Katakana Ho
|map1=Shift JIS (plain){{cite web |url=https://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/OBSOLETE/EASTASIA/JIS/SHIFTJIS.TXT |title=Shift-JIS to Unicode |author=Unicode Consortium |author-link=Unicode Consortium |date=2015-12-02 |orig-year=1994-03-08}}|map1char1=82 D9|map1char2=83 7A|map1char3=CE
|map2=Shift JIS-2004{{cite web |url=http://x0213.org/codetable/sjis-0213-2004-std.txt |title=Shift_JIS-2004 (JIS X 0213:2004 Appendix 1) vs Unicode mapping table |date=2009-05-03 |author=Project X0213}}|map2char1=82 D9|map2char2=83 7A|map2char3=CE|map2char4=83 F5
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|map4=EUC-JIS-2004{{cite web |url=http://x0213.org/codetable/euc-jis-2004-std.txt |title=EUC-JIS-2004 (JIS X 0213:2004 Appendix 3) vs Unicode mapping table |date=2009-05-03 |author=Project X0213}}|map4char1=A4 DB|map4char2=A5 DB|map4char3=8E CE|map4char4=A6 F7
|map5=GB 18030{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/GB18030-2005|title=GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set|last=Standardization Administration of China (SAC)|date=2005-11-18}}|map5char1=A4 DB|map5char2=A5 DB|map5char3=84 31 9A 32|map5char4=81 39 BD 33
|map6=EUC-KR{{cite web |url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/unicode-org/icu/master/icu4c/source/data/mappings/ibm-970_P110_P110-2006_U2.ucm |title=IBM-970 |author1=Unicode Consortium |author-link1=Unicode Consortium |author2=IBM |author-link2=IBM |work=International Components for Unicode}} / UHC{{cite web |url=https://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/CP949.TXT |title=cp949 to Unicode table |last=Steele |first=Shawn |publisher=Microsoft / Unicode Consortium |date=2000}}|map6char1=AA DB|map6char2=AB DB
|map7=Big5 (non-ETEN kana){{cite web |url=https://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/OBSOLETE/EASTASIA/OTHER/BIG5.TXT |title=BIG5 to Unicode table (complete) |author=Unicode Consortium |author-link=Unicode Consortium |date=2015-12-02 |orig-year=1994-02-11}}|map7char1=C6 DF|map7char2=C7 73
|map8=Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS){{cite web |url=https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/big5.html |title=big5 |work=Encoding Standard |publisher=WHATWG |last=van Kesteren |first=Anne |author-link=Anne van Kesteren}}|map8char1=C7 62|map8char2=C7 D7
}}
{{charmap
|307C|name1=Hiragana Letter Bo
|30DC|name2=Katakana Letter Bo
|307D|name3=Hiragana Letter Po
|30DD|name4=Katakana Letter Po
|map1=Shift JIS|map1char1=82 DA|map1char2=83 7B|map1char3=82 DB|map1char4=83 7C
|map2=EUC-JP|map2char1=A4 DC|map2char2=A5 DC|map2char3=A4 DD|map2char4=A5 DD
|map3=GB 18030|map3char1=A4 DC|map3char2=A5 DC|map3char3=A4 DD|map3char4=A5 DD
|map4=EUC-KR / UHC|map4char1=AA DC|map4char2=AB DC|map4char3=AA DD|map4char4=AB DD
|map5=Big5 (non-ETEN kana)|map5char1=C6 E0|map5char2=C7 74|map5char3=C6 E1|map5char4=C7 75
|map6=Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)|map6char1=C7 63|map6char2=C7 D8|map6char3=C7 64|map6char4=C7 D9
}}
References
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{{Wiktionarypar|ほ|ぼ|ぽ}}
{{Wiktionarypar|ホ|ボ|ポ}}
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