# No (kana)

kana gojūon :
| wa | ra | ya | ma | ha | na | ta | sa | ka | a |
| wi | ri | (yi) | mi | hi | ni | chi | shi | ki | i |
| (wu) | ru | yu | mu | fu | nu | tsu | su | ku | u |
| we | re | (ye) | me | he | ne | te | se | ke | e |
| wo | ro | yo | mo | ho | no | to | so | ko | o |
| | | | n | | | | | | |
Kana modifiers and marks :
sokuonfu (gemination)
yōon (palatalization)
chōonpu (vowel lengthener)
Iteration marks
dakuten/handakuten (voiced & semi-voiced marks) :
Multi-moraic kana :
iu
kashiko
koto
sama
shite
toki
tomo
nari
mairasesoro
yori :
vte :
の, in hiragana, and ノ, in katakana, are Japanese kana, both representing one mora. In the gojūon system of ordering of Japanese morae, it occupies the 25th position, between ね (ne) and は (ha). It occupies the 26th position in the iroha ordering. Both represent the sound [no]. The katakana form is written similar to the Kangxi radical 丿, radical 4.
| Form | Rōmaji | Hiragana | Katakana |
| Normal n- (な行 na-gyō) | no | の | ノ |
| Normal n- (な行 na-gyō) | nou noo nō | のう, のぅ のお, のぉ のー | ノウ, ノゥ ノオ, ノォ ノー |

## Stroke order

| Stroke order in writing の | Stroke order in writing ノ |
To write の, begin slightly above the center, stroke downward diagonally, then round upward and continue curve around, leaving a small gap at the bottom. To write ノ, simply do a swooping curve from top-right to bottom left.

## Other communicative representations

| Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code |
| 野原のノ Nohara no "No" | ▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ |
| Japanese Navy Signal Flag | Japanese semaphore | Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling) | Braille dots-234 Japanese Braille |
* Full Braille representation
の / ノ in Japanese Braille :
| の / ノ no | のう / ノー nō/nou | Other kana based on Braille の | Other kana based on Braille の |
| の / ノ no | のう / ノー nō/nou | にょ / ニョ nyo | にょう / ニョー nyō/nyou |
* Computer encodings
Character information :
| Preview | の | の | ノ | ノ | ﾉ | ﾉ | ㋨ | ㋨ |
| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER NO | HIRAGANA LETTER NO | KATAKANA LETTER NO | KATAKANA LETTER NO | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER NO | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER NO | CIRCLED KATAKANA NO | CIRCLED KATAKANA NO |
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 12398 | U+306E | 12494 | U+30CE | 65417 | U+FF89 | 13032 | U+32E8 |
| UTF-8 | 227 129 174 | E3 81 AE | 227 131 142 | E3 83 8E | 239 190 137 | EF BE 89 | 227 139 168 | E3 8B A8 |
| Numeric character reference | &#12398; | &#x306E; | &#12494; | &#x30CE; | &#65417; | &#xFF89; | &#13032; | &#x32E8; |
| Shift JIS | 130 204 | 82 CC | 131 109 | 83 6D | 201 | C9 | | |
| EUC-JP | 164 206 | A4 CE | 165 206 | A5 CE | 142 201 | 8E C9 | | |
| GB 18030 | 164 206 | A4 CE | 165 206 | A5 CE | 132 49 153 55 | 84 31 99 37 | | |
| EUC-KR / UHC | 170 206 | AA CE | 171 206 | AB CE | | | | |
| Big5 (non-ETEN kana) | 198 210 | C6 D2 | 199 102 | C7 66 | | | | |
| Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS) | 199 85 | C7 55 | 199 202 | C7 CA | | | | |

## History

The leftmost, predominantly vertical segment of the man'yōgana was used to create the katakana ノ.
When the kanji 乃 is written in the highly cursive, flowing grass script style, it begins to resemble the hiragana の.
Hentaigana and gyaru-moji variant kana forms of no can also be found.

## Usage

の is a dental nasal consonant, articulated on the upper teeth, combined with a close-mid back rounded vowel to form one mora.
In the Japanese language, as well as forming words, の may be a particle showing possession. For example, the phrase "わたしのでんわ” watashi no denwa means "my telephone."

### In Chinese

の has also proliferated on signs and labels in the Chinese-speaking world. It is used in place of the Modern Chinese possessive marker 的 de or Classical Chinese possessive marker 之 zhī, and の is pronounced in the same way as the Chinese character it replaces. This is usually done to "stand out" or to give an "exotic/Japanese feel", e.g. in commercial brand names, such as the fruit juice brand 鲜の每日C, where the の can be read as both 之 zhī, the possessive marker, and as 汁 zhī, meaning "juice". In Hong Kong, the Companies Registry has extended official recognition to this practice, and permits の to be used in Chinese names of registered businesses; it is thus the only non-Chinese symbol to be granted this treatment (aside from punctuation marks with no pronunciation value).