vu

Hiragana — ゔ

Extended V-row 2 strokes
Character

Usage Note

ゔ is the rarely-used hiragana base character for the "v" sound, formed by adding a dakuten to う. It is almost never written outside of phonetic teaching charts — the katakana form ヴ (e.g. ヴィーガン, vegan) is what actually appears in real text.