Nounrepresentation in hiragana; hiragana notation

Godan verb with 'ku' ending, Intransitive verb, Transitive verbto open; to undo; to unseal; to unpack · to bloom; to unfold; to spread out · to open (for business, e.g. in the morning)

Nounkana; Japanese syllabaries (i.e. hiragana and katakana)

Nounruby · ruby character; small hiragana or katakana readings of kanji usually above or to the side of the kanji (esp. used by printers and in ref. to printed material) · Ruby (programming language)

Nounwriting down from other written material; writing kanji text from hiragana · transcription (of spoken material); dictation

Noun, Archaic/formal form of na-adjectivemixed cursive-style man'yōgana and hiragana writing

Unclassifiedrepetition mark in hiragana

Unclassifiedvoiced repetition mark in hiragana

Unclassifiedhiragana "wi" (historical kana)

Unclassifiedhiragana "we" (historical kana)

Nounfemale help; female labor; female labour; female worker · woman's handwriting · hiragana

Nounnative Japanese characters (i.e. hiragana and katakana); kana · kanji created in Japan (as opposed to China); Japanese-made kanji

Nounlooking up a word or kanji by its reading (rather than by its radical or stroke count) · katakana-hiragana prolonged sound mark

Nounwoman's handwriting · hiragana

Nounhiragana

Expressions (phrases, clauses, etc.), Nounloop; shape of a hiragana "no"

Nounthe hiragana character "ku" · chevron-shaped; dogleg-shaped

NounAkihagijō (10C poem by Ono Michikaze, regarded as the first hiragana text)

Nouniteration mark shaped like the hiragana "ku" (used in vertical writing to represent repetition of two or more characters)

Nounrolling pin · extension bar · katakana-hiragana prolonged sound mark

Nounno-manjū; Okinawan sweet manjū with hiragana "no" written on it

Nounhiragana character "i"; hiragana character "hi"

Expressions (phrases, clauses, etc.), Ichidan verbto bend over in the shape of the hiragana character ku; to bend forward from the waist to form a chevron shape

Nounhenohenomoheji; seven hiragana characters grouped together to look like a face