yo
hiragana katakana
transliteration	yo
hiragana origin	与
katakana origin	與
Man'yōgana	用 容 欲 夜 与 余 四 世 代 吉
spelling kana	吉野のヨ Yoshino no "yo"
unicode	U+3088, U+30E8
braille
Note: These Man'yōgana originally represented syllables with one of two different vowel sounds, which merged in later pronunciation

よ, in hiragana or ヨ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. The hiragana is made in two strokes, while the katakana in three. Both represent [jo].

When small and preceded by an -i kana, this kana represents a palatalization of the preceding consonant sound with the [o] vowel (see yōon).^[1]

Stroke order

Other communicative representations

Japanese radiotelephony alphabet	Wabun code
吉野のヨ Yoshino no "Yo"	▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ⓘ

Japanese Navy Signal Flag	Japanese semaphore	Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling)	Braille dots-345 Japanese Braille

• Full Braille representation

よ / ヨ in Japanese Braille
よ / ヨ yo	よう / ヨー yō	ょ/ョ Yōon*	゛ょ/゛ョ Dakuten + Yōon*	゜ょ/゜ョ Handakuten + Yōon*

* The yōon characters ょ and ョ are encoded in Japanese Braille by prefixing "-o" kana (e.g. Ko, So) with a yōon braille indicator, which can be combined with the "Dakuten" or "Handakuten" braille indicators for the appropriate consonant sounds.

• Computer encodings