Yori (kana)

yori
Hiragana
Katakana
Transliterationyori
Hiragana originより
Katakana originヨリ

Yori (hiragana: ゟ, katakana: ) is one of the Japanese kana. It is a polysyllabic kana which represents two morae. Both the hiragana and katakana forms represent [joɾi] "from". ゟ is a combination (ligature) of the hiragana graphs of yo (よ) and ri (り), while is a combination (ligature) of the katakana graphs of yo (ヨ) and ri (リ).

In Unicode

Character information
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Unicode name HIRAGANA DIGRAPH YORI
Encodings decimal hex
Unicode 12447 U+309F
UTF-8 227 130 159 E3 82 9F
Numeric character reference ゟ ゟ
JIS X 0213 34 57 22 39

The katakana for yori has been approved by the UTC as of October 29, 2025. Code points U+1B123 to U+1B126 have been reserved for its addition with other polysyllabic kana in Unicode 18.0.[1]

References

Sources

  1. ^ "Proposed New Characters: The Pipeline". Unicode. Unicode Consortium. Retrieved 14 November 2025.

See also