Yori (kana) explained

Hiragana Image:Hiragana digraph Yori.svg
Katakana Image:Katakana-yori.svg
Transliteration:yori
Hiragana Manyogana:より
Katakana Manyogana:ヨリ

Yori (hiragana: ゟ, katakana:) is one of the Japanese kana. It is a polysyllabic kana which represents two morae. Both the hiragana and katakana forms represent pronounced as /ja/ "from". ゟ is a combination (ligature) of the hiragana graphs of yo (よ) and ri (り), while is a combination (ligature) of the katakana graphs of yo (ヨ) and ri (リ).

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