Nu (kana)
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 Hiragana |
 Katakana |
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| Transliteration | nu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hiragana origin: | 奴 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Katakana origin: | 奴 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nu, ぬ in hiragana, or ヌ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana each representing one mora. Both hiragana and katakana are made in two strokes and represent . They are both derived from the Chinese character 奴. In the Ainu language, katakana ヌ can be written as small ㇴ to represent a final n, and is interchangeable with the standard katakana ン.
| Form | Rōmaji | Hiragana | Katakana |
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| Normal n- (な行 na-gyō) |
nu | ぬ | ヌ |
| nuu nū |
ぬう, ぬぅ ぬー |
ヌウ, ヌゥ ヌー |
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Stroke order
Other Representations
| Character | ぬ | ヌ | ﾇ | ㇴ | ||||
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| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER NU | KATAKANA LETTER NU | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER NU | KATAKANA LETTER SMALL NU | ||||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | decimal | hex | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
| Unicode | 12396 | U+306C | 12492 | U+30CC | 65415 | U+FF87 | 12788 | U+31F4 |
| UTF-8 | 227 129 172 | E3 81 AC | 227 131 140 | E3 83 8C | 239 190 135 | EF BE 87 | 227 135 180 | E3 87 B4 |
| Numeric character reference | ぬ | ぬ | ヌ | ヌ | ﾇ | ﾇ | ㇴ | ㇴ |
| Shift JIS | 130 202 | 82 CA | 131 107 | 83 6B | 199 | C7 | ||
| ぬ / ヌ in Japanese Braille | |||
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| ぬ / ヌ nu |
ぬう / ヌー nū |
Other kana based on Braille ぬ | |
| にゅ / ニュ nyu |
にゅう / ニュー nyū |
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In popular culture
In the manga "Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo" ぬ is Jelly Jiggler's favorite character.
