ほ - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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See also: は, ぼ, and ぽ

Stroke order

• IPA^(key): [ho̞]

Derived in the Heian period from writing the man'yōgana kanji 保 in the cursive sōsho style.

ほ • (ho) 

1. The hiragana syllable ほ (ho). Its equivalent in katakana is ホ (ho). It is the thirtieth syllable in the gojūon order; its position is は行お段 (ha-gyō o-dan, “row ha, section o”).

• ぼ (bo)
• ぽ (po)

• (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, ゆゅ, よょ, ら, り, る, れ, ろ, わゎ, ゐ, ゑ, を, ん, ー, ゝ, ゞ, ゟ

Alternative spelling
穂

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *po.

• (Tokyo) ほ [hóꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [ho̞]

ほ • (ho) ^{←ほ (fo)?}

1. ear of grain
2. (calligraphy) tip of a brush

Alternative spelling
帆

ほ • (ho) 

1. sail

For pronunciation and definitions of ほ – see the following entries.

【舗】S [counter] folded texts, especially maps [noun] shop

(This term, ほ (ho), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.) For a list of all kanji read as ほ, see Category:Japanese kanji read as ほ.)