The katakana syllable ノ (no). Its equivalent in hiragana is の (no). It is the twenty-fifth syllable in the gojūon order; its position is ナ行オ段 (na-gyō o-dan, “row na, section o”).

(archaic) to excrete

Alternative form of ブイ (bui, “vee”) (name of the letter V, v)

(archaic, poetic, formal) Attaches to the verb stem, specifically the stem form ending in -e for type 1 verbs. This verb stem is called the 仮定形 (kateikei, “hypothetical form”) in Modern Japanese, a...