Ho (kana)
ほ, in hiragana, or ホ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. Both are made in four strokes and both represent [ho]. In the Sakhalin dialect of the Ainu language, ホ can be written as small ㇹ to represent a final h sound after an o sound (オㇹ oh).
| Form | Rōmaji | Hiragana | Katakana | 
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| Normal h- (ほ行 ha-gyō)  | 
ho | ほ | ホ | 
| hou hoo hō  | 
ほう ほお, ほぉ ほう, ほお, ほー  | 
ホウ ホオ, ホォ ホー  | |
| Addition dakuten b- (ぼ行 ba-gyō)  | 
bo | ぼ | ボ | 
| bou boo bō  | 
ぼう, ぼぅ ぼお, ぼぉ ぼう, ぼお, ぼー  | 
ボウ, ボゥ ボオ, ボォ ボー  | |
| Addition handakuten p- (ぽ行 pa-gyō)  | 
po | ぽ | ポ | 
| pou poo pō  | 
ぽう, ぽぅ ぽお, ぽぉ ぽう, ぽお, ぽー  | 
ポウ, ポゥ ポオ, ポォ ポー  | 
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| transliteration | ho | ||
| hiragana origin | 保 | ||
| katakana origin | 保 | ||
| Man'yōgana | 凡 方 抱 朋 倍 保 宝 富 百 帆 穂 本 | ||
| Voiced Man'yōgana | 煩 菩 番 蕃 | ||
| spelling kana | 保険のホ Hoken no "ho" | ||
| unicode | U+307B, U+30DB | ||
| braille | |||
| Note: This syllable was historically pronounced as "Po". | |||
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| sokuonfu (gemination) · yōon (palatalization) · chōonpu (vowel lengthener) · Iteration marks · dakuten/handakuten (voiced & semi-voiced marks) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Multi-syllabic kana | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| iu · kashiko · koto · sama · shite · toki · tomo · nari · mairasesoro · yori | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stroke order
    
![]() Stroke order in writing ほ  | 
![]() Stroke order in writing ホ  | 

Stroke order in writing ほ

Stroke order in writing ホ
Other communicative representations
    
| Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code | 
| 保険のホ Hoken no "Ho"  | 
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| Japanese Navy Signal Flag | Japanese semaphore | Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling) | Braille dots-2346 Japanese Braille  | 
- Full Braille representation
 
| ほ / ホ in Japanese Braille | |||||||||||
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| ほ / ホ  ho  | ぼ / ボ  bo  | ぽ / ポ  po  | ほう / ホー  hō  | ぼう / ボー  bō  | ぽう / ポー  pō  | Other kana based on Braille ほ | |||||
| ひょ / ヒョ  hyo  | びょ / ビョ  byo  | ぴょ / ピョ  pyo  | ひょう / ヒョー  hyō  | びょう / ビョー  byō  | ぴょう / ピョー  pyō  | ||||||
| Preview | ほ | ホ | ホ | ㇹ | ㋭ | |||||
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| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER HO | KATAKANA LETTER HO | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER HO | KATAKANA LETTER SMALL HO | CIRCLED KATAKANA HO | |||||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | 
| Unicode | 12411 | U+307B | 12507 | U+30DB | 65422 | U+FF8E | 12793 | U+31F9 | 13037 | U+32ED | 
| UTF-8 | 227 129 187 | E3 81 BB | 227 131 155 | E3 83 9B | 239 190 142 | EF BE 8E | 227 135 185 | E3 87 B9 | 227 139 173 | E3 8B AD | 
| Numeric character reference | ほ | ほ | ホ | ホ | ホ | ホ | ㇹ | ㇹ | ㋭ | ㋭ | 
| Shift JIS (plain)[1] | 130 217 | 82 D9 | 131 122 | 83 7A | 206 | CE | ||||
| Shift JIS-2004[2] | 130 217 | 82 D9 | 131 122 | 83 7A | 206 | CE | 131 245 | 83 F5 | ||
| EUC-JP (plain)[3] | 164 219 | A4 DB | 165 219 | A5 DB | 142 206 | 8E CE | ||||
| EUC-JIS-2004[4] | 164 219 | A4 DB | 165 219 | A5 DB | 142 206 | 8E CE | 166 247 | A6 F7 | ||
| GB 18030[5] | 164 219 | A4 DB | 165 219 | A5 DB | 132 49 154 50 | 84 31 9A 32 | 129 57 189 51 | 81 39 BD 33 | ||
| EUC-KR[6] / UHC[7] | 170 219 | AA DB | 171 219 | AB DB | ||||||
| Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[8] | 198 223 | C6 DF | 199 115 | C7 73 | ||||||
| Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[9] | 199 98 | C7 62 | 199 215 | C7 D7 | ||||||
| Preview | ぼ | ボ | ぽ | ポ | ||||
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| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER BO | KATAKANA LETTER BO | HIRAGANA LETTER PO | KATAKANA LETTER PO | ||||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | 
| Unicode | 12412 | U+307C | 12508 | U+30DC | 12413 | U+307D | 12509 | U+30DD | 
| UTF-8 | 227 129 188 | E3 81 BC | 227 131 156 | E3 83 9C | 227 129 189 | E3 81 BD | 227 131 157 | E3 83 9D | 
| Numeric character reference | ぼ | ぼ | ボ | ボ | ぽ | ぽ | ポ | ポ | 
| Shift JIS[1] | 130 218 | 82 DA | 131 123 | 83 7B | 130 219 | 82 DB | 131 124 | 83 7C | 
| EUC-JP[3] | 164 220 | A4 DC | 165 220 | A5 DC | 164 221 | A4 DD | 165 221 | A5 DD | 
| GB 18030[5] | 164 220 | A4 DC | 165 220 | A5 DC | 164 221 | A4 DD | 165 221 | A5 DD | 
| EUC-KR[6] / UHC[7] | 170 220 | AA DC | 171 220 | AB DC | 170 221 | AA DD | 171 221 | AB DD | 
| Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[8] | 198 224 | C6 E0 | 199 116 | C7 74 | 198 225 | C6 E1 | 199 117 | C7 75 | 
| Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[9] | 199 99 | C7 63 | 199 216 | C7 D8 | 199 100 | C7 64 | 199 217 | C7 D9 | 
References
    
- Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-03-08]. "Shift-JIS to Unicode".
 - Project X0213 (2009-05-03). "Shift_JIS-2004 (JIS X 0213:2004 Appendix 1) vs Unicode mapping table".
 - Unicode Consortium; IBM. "EUC-JP-2007". International Components for Unicode.
 - Project X0213 (2009-05-03). "EUC-JIS-2004 (JIS X 0213:2004 Appendix 3) vs Unicode mapping table".
 - Standardization Administration of China (SAC) (2005-11-18). GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set.
 - Unicode Consortium; IBM. "IBM-970". International Components for Unicode.
 - Steele, Shawn (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". Microsoft / Unicode Consortium.
 - Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-02-11]. "BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".
 - van Kesteren, Anne. "big5". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.
 
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