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Also known as HIRAGANA LETTER SO, so

Hiragana letter So (U+305D)

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Encyclopedic overview

Transliterationso Translit. with dakutenzo Hiragana origin曽 Katakana origin曽 Man'yōgana宗 祖 素 蘇 十 所 則 曾 僧 増 憎 衣 背 苑 Voiced man'yōgana俗 序 叙 賊 存 茹 鋤 Spelling kanaそろばんのソ (Soroban no "so") Note: These Man'yōgana originally represented morae with one of two different vowel sounds, which merged in later pronunciation.

Kana modifiers and marks

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “そ” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.