Japanese

Stroke order

Syllable

ゆ ‎(romaji yu)

1. The hiragana syllable ゆ ‎(yu). Its equivalent in katakana is ユ ‎(yu). It is the thirty-seventh syllable in the gojūon order; its position is や行う段 ‎(ya-gyō u-dan, “row ya, section u”).

See also

• (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

Etymology 2

Attaches to the irrealis form of verbs. Conjugates as a lower bigrade: ye, ye, yu, yuru, yure, -.

Suffix

ゆ ‎(romaji -yu)

1. expresses passiveness
2. expresses possibility
3. expresses natural, spontaneous occurrence

Derived terms