I often see this "う" when searching in dictionaries. What is this character used for?
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phonetic u (gOOd)sound. That is all what I can think of.
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actually not a "gOOd" sound. More like OO in "bOOth."
Anyway, just a letter. Hiragana for u.
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@ Hakkyo Hoppier : I know what you mean. But try to search 'undoukouen' in jisho.org. You will understand what i'm talking about. It has two different 'u' in a word.
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It sounds like mOOd also
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You said that your dictionary has two types of font, but they're not fonts, Japanese language has 3 kinds of alphabets: katakana - characters that represents sounds, used for words and names that are not japanese. Hiragana - characters that also represent sounds, used for japanese words. Kanji - characters that represent ideas, used for japanese words and names.
The う represents the U in hiragana alphabet.
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