ぬ
ぬ — nu
- Script
- Hiragana
- Romaji
- nu
- Strokes
- 2
- Group
- Basic (gojūon)
Audio coming soon.
How to remember it
A bowl of noodles with a loop of noodle escaping the side — "nu" for noodles.
ぬ takes two strokes: a short vertical-ish stroke on the left, then a long stroke that crosses it, loops at the bottom right and closes.
The loop is everything. ぬ and め are near-identical apart from that closed loop — め has none. If your loop is sloppy, readers will guess from context, which is exactly what you don’t want when your handwriting is being marked.
Example words
- いぬ inu dog
- ぬの nuno cloth
- ぬるい nurui lukewarm
Easily confused with
These look alike. Drill them side by side before they fossilise.