so (kana)
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{{Infobox kana
| Hiragana image = Japanese Hiragana kyokashotai SO.svg
| Katakana image = Japanese Katakana kyokashotai SO.svg
| Transliteration = so
| Transliteration Dakuten = zo
| Hiragana Manyogana = 曽
| Katakana Manyogana = 曽
| Other Manyogana = 宗 祖 素 蘇 十 所 則 曾 僧 増 憎 衣 背 苑
| Dakuten Manyogana = 俗 序 叙 賊 存 茹 鋤
| Spelling = そろばんのソ
(Soroban no "so")
| footnote = These Man'yōgana originally represented morae with one of two different vowel sounds, which merged in later pronunciation.
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そ, in hiragana, or ソ, in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. Both represent {{IPA|[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.
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!Form |
| rowspan="2"|Normal s- (さ行 sa-gyō) |so |そ |ソ |
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| sou soo sō |そう, そぅ |ソウ, ソゥ |
| rowspan="2"|Addition dakuten z- (ざ行 za-gyō) |zo |ぞ |ゾ |
| zou zoo zō |ぞう, ぞぅ |ゾウ, ゾゥ |
Stroke order
Alternative form
Other communicative representations
{{Letter reps|lang=Japanese|radio={{lang|ja|そろばんのソ}}|radio_trans=Soroban no "So"|morse=－－－・ |morse_sound=Ö, Ø, Ó Morse Code.oga|flag_img=|sign_img=So-jsl-yubimoji.png|sem1=Japanese Semaphore Basic Stroke 5.svg|sem2=Japanese Semaphore Basic Stroke 3.svg|braille_img=Japanese So Braille.svg|braille=⠺}}
- Full Braille representation
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| colspan=8| そ / ソ in Japanese Braille | |||||||
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| rowspan=2| そ / ソ so | rowspan=2| ぞ / ゾ zo | rowspan=2| そう / ソー sō | rowspan=2| ぞう / ゾー zō | colspan=4| 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 | ||||
| {{Braille cell|type=kana|size=30px|そ}} | {{Braille cell|type=kana|size=30px|5|そ}} | {{Braille cell|type=kana|size=30px|そ|25}} | {{Braille cell|type=kana|size=30px|5|そ|25}} | {{Braille cell|type=kana|size=30px|4|そ}} | {{Braille cell|type=kana|size=30px|45|そ}} | {{Braille cell|type=kana|size=30px|4|そ|25}} | {{Braille cell|type=kana|size=30px|45|そ|25}} |
{{charmap
|305D|name1=Hiragana Letter So
|30BD|name2=Katakana Letter So
|FF7F|name3=Halfwidth Katakana Letter So
|305E|name4=Hiragana Letter Zo
|30BE|name5=Katakana Letter Zo
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|map3=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}}|map3char1=A4 BD|map3char2=A5 BD|map3char3=84 31 98 37|map3char4=A4 BE|map3char5=A5 BE
|map4=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}}|map4char1=AA BD|map4char2=AB BD|map4char4=AA BE|map4char5=AB BE
|map5=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}}|map5char1=C6 C1|map5char2=C7 55|map5char4=C6 C2|map5char5=C7 56
|map6=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}}|map6char1=C7 44|map6char2=C7 B9|map6char4=C7 45|map6char5=C7 BA
}}
{{charmap
|32DE|name1=Circled Katakana So
}}
{{wiktionarypar|そ|ぞ|ソ|ゾ}}
References
- The Compact Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Andrew Nelson, John H Haig) Tuttle Publishing 1999
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