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く (ku) – Hiragana


Pronunciation

– Pronounced as the Japanese ‘ku’. Sounds like a koo-koo bird ‘kooing’, going ‘ku… ku… ku’.

About

く, in hiragana, or ク in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. Their shapes come from the kanji 久.

Mnemonics

Mnemonic 1: It’s the beak of a koo-koo bird, just hear it going ‘ku ku, ku ku!’, keeping you awake…

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