Wu (kana)
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| transliteration | wu | ||
| hiragana origin | 汙/于 | ||
| katakana origin | 汙 | ||
| unicode | U+1B11F, U+1B122 | ||
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Wu (hiragana: 𛄟, katakana: 𛄢) is a hentaigana, a variant kana or Japanese syllable.[1]
History[edit]
It is presumed that 𛄟 would have represented /β̞u/.[2][a] Along with 𛀆 and 𛀁 (yi and ye respectively), the syllable wu has no officially recognized kana, as these syllables do not occur in native Japanese words; however, during the Meiji period, linguists almost unanimously agreed on the kana for yi, ye, and wu. 𛀆 and wu are thought to have never occurred as syllables in Japanese, and 𛀁 was merged with え and エ.
Characters[edit]
In the Edo period and the Meiji period, some Japanese linguists tried to separate kana u and kana wu. The shapes of characters differed with each linguist. 𛄟 and 𛄢 were just two of many shapes.
They were phonetic symbols to fill in the blanks of the gojuon table. Japanese people didn't separate them in normal writing.
- u
- wu
- Traditional kana
- Constructed kana
These suggestions weren't accepted.
Unicode[edit]
This kana has been encoded into Unicode 14.0 since September 14, 2021 as HIRAGANA LETTER ARCHAIC WU (U+1B11F), and KATAKANA LETTER ARCHAIC WU (U+1B122).
Notes[edit]
- ^ /β̞/ corresponds to what is typically represented as /w/ in modern Japanese, which is still phonetically a bilabial approximant.
References[edit]
- ^ a b Iannacone, Jake (2020). "Reply to The Origin of Hiragana /wu/ 平仮名のわ行うの字源に対する新たな発見"
- ^ Gross, Abraham (2020-01-05), Proposal to Encode Missing Japanese Kana (PDF), p. 1
- ^ 綴字篇
- ^ 村山自彊; 中島幹事 (1891). 仮名遣. 開新堂. p. 19.
- ^ 音韻啓蒙 : 2巻. 上巻
- ^ 綴字篇
- ^ 音韻啓蒙 : 2巻. 上巻
- ^ 音韻啓蒙 : 2巻. 上巻
- ^ 日本新文典
- ^ 音韻啓蒙 : 2巻. 上巻
- ^ 綴字篇
- ^ 有賀長隣. 片仮名元字. p. 4.
- ^ 小学日本文典入門. 巻之1
- ^ 綴字篇
- ^ 綴字篇
- ^ 国語仮字つかい
- ^ 辞礎
- ^ 小学日本文典入門. 巻之1
See also[edit]
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