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

Reading of various kanji.

Noun

ご • (go) 

1. 語: language
2. 棊, 棋, 碁: go (board game)
3. 期: a specific time; death (as in "one's time has come")
4. 伍: a military squad (usu. of five people); a group
5. 午: noon; midnight
6. 豆油, 豆汁: a slurry of boiled and mashed soybeans used as the raw material for making tofu, dyes, and oil paints

Numeral

ご • (go) 

1. 五: five
2. 伍: financial form of 五

Prefix

ご • (go-) 

1. 御: honorific prefix used before on'yomi nouns
2. 互: mutual

Proper noun

ご • (Go) 

1. 呉: Wu China

Suffix

ご • (-go) 

1. 語: language of, -ese
2. 後: after