| Hiragana Image: | Hiragana koto.svg |
| Katakana Image: | Katakana digraph Koto.svg |
| Transliteration: | koto |
| Hiragana Manyogana: | こと |
| Katakana Manyogana: | 事 |
Koto (hiragana:, katakana: ヿ) is one of the Japanese kana. It is a polysyllabic kana which represents two morae. Both the hiragana and katakana forms represent pronounced as /[koto]/. is a combination (ligature) of the hiragana graphs of ko (こ) and to (と), while ヿ originates from the Chinese character 事.
The katakana koto is as a shorthand used in (an obsolete writing style that exclusively used katakana instead of hiragana).[1] [2]
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