Nu (kana)

nu
hiragana katakana
transliteration	nu
hiragana origin	奴
katakana origin	奴

Nu, ぬ in hiragana, or ヌ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana each representing one mora. Both hiragana and katakana are made in two strokes and represent [nu͍]. They are both derived from the Chinese character 奴. In the Ainu language, katakana ヌ can be written as small ㇴ to represent a final n, and is interchangeable with the standard katakana ン.

Form	Rōmaji	Hiragana	Katakana
Normal n- (な行 na-gyō)	nu	ぬ	ヌ
	nuu nū	ぬう, ぬぅ ぬー	ヌウ, ヌゥ ヌー

Other additional forms
Form (nw-) Rōmaji Hiragana Katakana nwa ぬぁ ヌァ nwi ぬぃ ヌィ (nwu) (ぬぅ) (ヌゥ) nwe ぬぇ ヌェ nwo ぬぉ ヌォ

Stroke order

Stroke order in writing ぬ

Stroke order in writing ヌ

Stroke order in writing ぬ

Stroke order in writing ヌ

Other representations

• Computer encodings

Character	ぬ		ヌ		ﾇ		ㇴ
Unicode name	HIRAGANA LETTER NU		KATAKANA LETTER NU		HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER NU		KATAKANA LETTER SMALL NU
Encodings	decimal	hex	decimal	hex	decimal	hex	decimal	hex
Unicode	12396	U+306C	12492	U+30CC	65415	U+FF87	12788	U+31F4
UTF-8	227 129 172	E3 81 AC	227 131 140	E3 83 8C	239 190 135	EF BE 87	227 135 180	E3 87 B4
Numeric character reference	ぬ	ぬ	ヌ	ヌ	ﾇ	ﾇ	ㇴ	ㇴ
Shift JIS	130 202	82 CA	131 107	83 6B	199	C7

• Braille

ぬ / ヌ in Japanese Braille
ぬ / ヌ nu	ぬう / ヌー nū	Other kana based on Braille ぬ
		にゅ / ニュ nyu	にゅう / ニュー nyū

• Japanese semaphore

In popular culture

In the manga "Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo" ぬ is Jelly Jiggler's favorite character.