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Is there a kanji form of ああ, like there is for [斯]{こ}う, [然]{そ}う, and [如何]{どう}?
I've searched online, but neither Jisho.org, Wiktionary, or Weblio list a
kanji version for demonstrative ああ, like they do for [斯]{こ}う, [然]{そ}う, and
[如何]{どう}.

I would assume [彼]{あ}あ, but the う/あ series of demonstratives break the
[此]{こ}[其]{そ}[彼]{あ}[何]{ど} pattern and use different kanji from the rest of the
demonstratives, so that's probably wrong.

I know there is [嗚呼]{ああ} and [噫]{ああ}, but those are use to describe the sound
"aa" than the demonstrative.

Is there a kanji form of ああ? Or is it safe to assume that ああ has no kanji
form?
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kanji demonstratives
Is there a kanji form of ああ?
You wrote above the correct kanji for ああ (there is also another kanji for
ああ、嗟),

but practically **you don't need to learn kanji for demonstratives.**

They are quite obsolete and very rarely used in writing.

(I've never seen them in any context, only in a dictionary)

Hope it helps.
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ああ was created by **analogy** with こう and そう only in late eightteenth century
(Frellesvig, _A History of the Japanese Language_ , p. 389). [Were it an
inherited form, it would have been あう and then おう.] Hence, it was too late to
get a specific kanji correspondence.
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