, in hiragana, or in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. Both represent the sound [to], and when written with dakuten represent the sound [do]. In the Ainu language, the katakana ト can be written with a handakuten (which can be entered in a computer as either one character (ト゚) or two combined characters (ト゜) to represent the sound [tu], and is interchangeable with the katakana ツ゚.

to
hiragana
japanese hiragana to
katakana
japanese katakana to
transliterationto
translit. with dakutendo
hiragana origin
katakana origin
Man'yōgana刀 土 斗 度 戸 利 速 止 等 登 澄 得 騰 十 鳥 常 跡
Voiced Man'yōgana土 度 渡 奴 怒 特 藤 騰 等 耐 抒 杼
spelling kana東京のト
(Tōkyō no "to")
unicodeU+3068, U+30C8
braille⠞
Note: These Man'yōgana originally represented morae with one of two different vowel sounds, which merged in later pronunciation.
Form Rōmaji Hiragana Katakana
Normal t-
(た行 ta-gyō)
to
tou
too
とう
とお, とぉ
とー
トウ
トオ, トォ
トー
Addition dakuten d-
(だ行 da-gyō)
do
dou
doo
どう
どお, どぉ
どー
ドウ
ドオ, ドォ
ドー
Other additional forms
Form A (tw-)
Romaji Hiragana Katakana
twa とぁ, とゎ トァ, トヮ
twi とぃ トィ
tu, twu とぅ トゥ
twe とぇ トェ
two とぅぉ トゥォ
Form B (dw-)
Romaji Hiragana Katakana
dwa どぁ, どゎ ドァ, ドヮ
dwi どぃ ドィ
du, dwu どぅ ドゥ
dwe どぇ ドェ
dwo どぅぉ ドゥォ

Stroke order

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Stroke order in writing と
 
Stroke order in writing ト
 
Stroke order in writing と
 
Stroke order in writing ト

The Katakana ト is made from two strokes:

  1. A vertical stroke on in the center;
  2. A line pointing downwards towards the right.

Other communicative representations

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  • Full Braille representation
と / ト in Japanese Braille
と / ト
to
ど / ド
do
とう / トー
/tou
どう / ドー
/dou
Other kana based on Braille
ちょ / チョ
cho
ぢょ / ヂョ
jo/dyo
ちょう / チョー
chō
ぢょう / ヂョー
/dyō
                         
Character information
Preview
Unicode name HIRAGANA LETTER TO KATAKANA LETTER TO HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER TO CIRCLED KATAKANA TO
Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex dec hex
Unicode 12392 U+3068 12488 U+30C8 65412 U+FF84 13027 U+32E3
UTF-8 227 129 168 E3 81 A8 227 131 136 E3 83 88 239 190 132 EF BE 84 227 139 163 E3 8B A3
Numeric character reference と と ト ト ト ト ㋣ ㋣
Shift JIS[1] 130 198 82 C6 131 103 83 67 196 C4
EUC-JP[2] 164 200 A4 C8 165 200 A5 C8 142 196 8E C4
GB 18030[3] 164 200 A4 C8 165 200 A5 C8 132 49 153 50 84 31 99 32
EUC-KR[4] / UHC[5] 170 200 AA C8 171 200 AB C8
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[6] 198 204 C6 CC 199 96 C7 60
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[7] 199 79 C7 4F 199 196 C7 C4
Character information
Preview ト゚
Unicode name KATAKANA LETTER SMALL TO HIRAGANA LETTER DO KATAKANA LETTER DO KATAKANA LETTER AINU TO[8]
Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex dec hex
Unicode 12787 U+31F3 12393 U+3069 12489 U+30C9 12488 12442 U+30C8+309A
UTF-8 227 135 179 E3 87 B3 227 129 169 E3 81 A9 227 131 137 E3 83 89 227 131 136 227 130 154 E3 83 88 E3 82 9A
Numeric character reference ㇳ ㇳ ど ど ド ド ト゚ ト゚
Shift JIS (plain)[1] 130 199 82 C7 131 104 83 68
Shift JIS-2004[9] 131 239 83 EF 130 199 82 C7 131 104 83 68 131 158 83 9E
EUC-JP (plain)[2] 164 201 A4 C9 165 201 A5 C9
EUC-JIS-2004[10] 166 241 A6 F1 164 201 A4 C9 165 201 A5 C9 165 254 A5 FE
GB 18030[3] 129 57 188 55 81 39 BC 37 164 201 A4 C9 165 201 A5 C9
EUC-KR[4] / UHC[5] 170 201 AA C9 171 201 AB C9
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[6] 198 205 C6 CD 199 97 C7 61
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[7] 199 80 C7 50 199 197 C7 C5

References

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  1. ^ a b Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-03-08]. "Shift-JIS to Unicode".
  2. ^ a b Unicode Consortium; IBM. "EUC-JP-2007". International Components for Unicode.
  3. ^ a b Standardization Administration of China (SAC) (2005-11-18). GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set.
  4. ^ a b Unicode Consortium; IBM. "IBM-970". International Components for Unicode.
  5. ^ a b Steele, Shawn (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". Microsoft / Unicode Consortium.
  6. ^ a b Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-02-11]. "BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".
  7. ^ a b van Kesteren, Anne. "big5". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.
  8. ^ Unicode Consortium. "Unicode Named Character Sequences". Unicode Character Database.
  9. ^ Project X0213 (2009-05-03). "Shift_JIS-2004 (JIS X 0213:2004 Appendix 1) vs Unicode mapping table".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  10. ^ Project X0213 (2009-05-03). "EUC-JIS-2004 (JIS X 0213:2004 Appendix 3) vs Unicode mapping table".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)