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>Possibly also not unambiguous; look at this quote from the
>"Hiragana" page: "Syllables with final "-u" can (also) stand for
>consonants."

That's the beauty of it. Lojban Hiragana is not an exact science, either to
read or to write, but rather an art form. One could think of it as the
calligraphic form of Lojban writing.