か

A fork in the road, still open: か

The picture A road splits in two and nothing has decided which way yet. Hand that undecidedness to the person in front of you and it's a question; leave it sitting inside your sentence and it becomes "I don't know".

Particles

は wa Put up a sign before you speak: は Japanese 5 uses

が ga が is a finger, not a topic Japanese 5 uses

を o を is not the object marker. It is the path. Japanese 5 uses

に ni One arrow, one point: に Japanese 5 uses

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