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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (morpheme-medial alternative pronunciation)
Etymology 1
The hiragana character こ (ko) with a dakuten (゛).
Syllable
ご • (go)
- 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, こ𛄲 (𛄲)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, 𛀆, ゆゅ, 𛀁, よょ, らら゚, りり゚, るる゚, れれ゚, ろろ゚, わゎわ゙, ゐ𛅐 (𛅐)ゐ゙, 𛄟 (𛄟), ゑ𛅑 (𛅑)ゑ゙, を𛅒 (𛅒)を゙, ん, ー, ゝ, ゞ, ゟ
Etymology 2
Reading of various kanji.
Noun
ご • (go)
- 語: language
- 棊, 棋, 碁: go (board game)
- 期: a specific time; death (as in "one's time has come")
- 伍: a military squad (usu. of five people); a group
- 午: noon; midnight
- 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)
- 五: five
- 伍: financial form of 五
Prefix
ご • (go-)
- 御: honorific prefix used before on'yomi nouns
- 互: mutual
Proper noun
ご • (Go)
- 呉: Wu China
Suffix
ご • (-go)
- 語: language of, -ese
- 後: after
