ご

See also: こ and こ゚

ご	U+3054, ご HIRAGANA LETTER GO

Composition:

Hiragana

Japanese

Stroke order

The hiragana character こ (ko) with a dakuten (゛).

ご • (go)

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

【語】2	[noun] (linguistics) a word, term [noun] a proverb [suffix] language of, -ese, -ish [affix] talk, speak [affix] word, language, term [affix] short for 物語 (monogatari): story, tale, narrative

【碁】S	[noun] go (board game) Alternative spellings 棊, 棋

【期】3	[noun] a specific time or date [noun] a deadline [noun] death (as in "one's time has come")

【伍】J	[noun] (financial, archaic) the number five, 5 (used only in legal documents, otherwise 五) [noun] a military squad (usu. of five people); a group

【午】2	[noun] noon [proper noun] the Horse, the seventh of the twelve Earthly Branches

【豆油】	[noun] a slurry of boiled and mashed soybeans used as the raw material for making tofu, dyes, and oil paints Alternative spelling 豆汁

【五】1	[noun] five [noun] a name of a hole of a wind instrument

【御】S

[prefix] (honorific) used to respectfully refer to something that belongs to or is related to the listener or a third party

[prefix] (attaches to nouns denoting actions)

[prefix] (honorific) used to respectfully describe the actions of another

[prefix] (humble, with する (suru), 致(いた)す (itasu), etc.) used to humbly describe one's own actions that affect someone else

[prefix] (polite) adds refinement

[suffix] (honorific) indicates that the [word] is familiar to the speaker and slightly honorific

[noun] (obsolete, archaic, honorific) a lady

[noun] (obsolete, archaic, honorific) form of address to a woman or a court lady: my Lady

【互】S	[prefix] mutual

【呉】S	[proper noun] Japanese reading of the Chinese surname Wu. [proper noun] the ancient State of Wu [proper noun] (chiefly compounds) China, Chinese

【後】2	[noun] later, afterwards, some time after the present [suffix] after [prefix] latter Alternative spelling 后

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