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Katakana symbol:
Romanized syllable:
Calligraphy:
yo
Examples:
ヨーク
yooku
'York'
リヨン
riyon
'Lyon'
This is a borrowing from French.
ヨセミテ
yosemite
'Yosemite'
ヨハネスブルグ
Yohanesuburugu
'Johannesburg'
"...one-fourth of all the characters used in modern Japanese occur in three-fourths of all the most frequently occurring words. This means that by concentrating on learning approximately 500 select characters, the student is assured of being able to read 75% of all the high-frequency words he will encounter in modern literature." - The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power.
