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• IPA(key): [d͡zo̞]

The hiragana character そ (so) with a dakuten (゛).

ぞ • (zo)

1. The hiragana syllable ぞ (zo). Its equivalent in katakana is ゾ (zo).

• (Hiragana) 平仮名; あぁ, いぃ, うぅゔ, えぇ, おぉ, かゕが, きぎ, くぐ, けゖげ, こ𛄲 (𛄲)ご, さざ, しじ, すず, せぜ, そぞ, ただ, ちぢ, つっづ, てで, とど, な, に, ぬ, ね, の, はばぱ, ひびぴ, ふぶぷ, へべぺ, ほぼぽ, ま, み, む, め, も, やゃ, 𛀆, ゆゅ, 𛀁, よょ, らら゚, りり゚, るる゚, れれ゚, ろろ゚, わゎわ゙, ゐ𛅐 (𛅐)ゐ゙, 𛄟 (𛄟), ゑ𛅑 (𛅑)ゑ゙, を𛅒 (𛅒)を゙, ん, ー, ゝ, ゞ, ゟ

From Old Japanese. Previously unvoiced as so until the Nara period.

ぞ • (zo)

1. (colloquial, men's speech) a particle used at the end of sentences, which indicates certainty, emphasis or even a warning or a threat.
   やるぞ！
   Yaru zo!
   I'm gonna do it!
   これで済(す)まないぞ！
   Kore de sumanai zo!
   It doesn't end here!
   • よそで飯(めし)を盗(ぬす)んで食(く)うたりするんじゃないぞ
     yoso de meshi o nusunde kūtari suru n ja nai zo
     You may not steal and eat food in other houses, ever.
2. a particle used as a suffix to an interrogative word to mark it indefinite.
   • 何(ど)処(こ)ぞで歌(うた)うたふ声(こえ)が聞(きこ)えるやうやのう
     dokozo de uta utau koe ga kikoeru yō ya nō
     It feels like we can hear voice of singers somewhere.
3. (archaic) a particle which makes a question emphasized or rhetorical, used at the end of a sentence or appended to an interrogative word.
   • 単(たん)純(じゅん)化(か)を貴(とうと)ぶ精(せい)神(しん)が無(な)くして、なんぞ、この種(しゅ)のことが起(お)きて来(こ)ようぞ。
     Tanjunka o tōtobu seishin ga nakushite, nanzo, kono shu no koto ga okite koyō zo.
     Without the spirit of treasuring simplification, how could this kind of things ever happen.
4. (predicative, men's speech) topic particle used for emphasis
   これぞ辞(じ)典(てん)の本(ほん)当(とう)の力(ちから)だ‼
   Kore zo jiten no hontō no chikara da‼
   This is the true power of a dictionary!!

• 良(よ)くぞ (yoku zo)
• 知(し)る人(ひと)ぞ知(し)る (shiru hito zo shiru)
• ここぞとばかりに (koko zo to bakari ni)