ご

See also: こ and こ゚

ご U+3054, ご HIRAGANA LETTER GO Composition: こ [U+3053] + ◌゙ [U+3099] ← こ [U+3053] Hiragana さ → [U+3055]

Japanese

Stroke order

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɡo̞]

• IPA^(key): [ŋo̞] (morpheme-medial alternative pronunciation)

Etymology 1

The hiragana character こ (ko) with a dakuten (゛).

Syllable

ご • (go) 

1. The hiragana syllable ご (go). Its equivalent in katakana is ゴ (go).

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

For pronunciation and definitions of ご – see the following entries.

【語】2 [noun] (linguistics) a word, term [noun] a proverb [suffix] language of, -ese, -ish [affix] talk, speak [affix] word, language, term [affix] Short for 物語 (monogatari): story, tale, narrative

【碁】S [noun] go (board game) Alternative spellings 棊, 棋

【期】3 [noun] a specific time or date [noun] a deadline [noun] death (as in "one's time has come")

【伍】J [noun] (financial, archaic) the number five, 5 (used only in legal documents, otherwise 五) [noun] a military squad (usu. of five people); a group

【午】2 [noun] noon [proper noun] the Horse, the seventh of the twelve Earthly Branches

【豆油】 [noun] a slurry of boiled and mashed soybeans used as the raw material for making tofu, dyes, and oil paints Alternative spelling 豆汁

【五】1 [noun] five [noun] a name of a hole of a wind instrument

【御】S [prefix] indicates that the [word] is honorific; often used to indicate that the [word] belongs or is related to the listener (as opposed to the speaker) [suffix] (honorific) indicates that the [word] is familiar to the speaker and slightly honorific [noun] (obsolete, archaic, honorific) a lady [noun] (obsolete, archaic, honorific) form of address to a woman or a court lady: my Lady

【互】S [prefix] mutual

【呉】S [proper noun] Japanese reading of the Chinese surname Wu. [proper noun] the ancient State of Wu [proper noun] (chiefly compounds) China, Chinese

【後】2 [noun] later, afterwards, some time after the present [suffix] after [prefix] latter Alternative spelling 后

(This term, ご (go), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.) For a list of all kanji read as ご, see Category:Japanese kanji read as ご.)