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me: hiragana origin: 女: katakana origin: 女: Man'yōgana: 売 馬 面 女 梅 米 迷 昧 目 眼 海: spelling kana: 明治のメ Meiji no "me" unicode: U+3081, U+30E1: braille: Note: These Man'yōgana originally represented morae with one of two different vowel sounds, which merged in later pronunciation
Katakana (片仮名、カタカナ, IPA: [katakaꜜna, kataꜜkana]) is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, [2] kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji). The word katakana means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana characters are derived from components or fragments of more ...
The modern Katakana e, エ, derives from the man'yōgana 江, originally pronounced ye; [9] a "Katakana letter Archaic E" derived from the man'yōgana 衣 (e) [9] is encoded into Unicode at code point U+1B000 (𛀀), [10] due to being used for that purpose in scholarly works on classical Japanese. [14]
ろ, in hiragana, or ロ in katakana, (romanised as ro) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. The hiragana is written in one stroke, katakana in three. Both represent ⓘ and both originate from the Chinese character 呂. The Ainu language uses a small ㇿ to represent a final r sound after an o sound (オㇿ or).
ゑ in hiragana, or ヱ in katakana, is an obsolete Japanese kana that is normally pronounced [e] in current-day Japanese. The combination of a W-column kana letter with "ゑ゙" in hiragana was introduced to represent [ve] in the 19th and 20th centuries. [citation needed]
The letters fit in a five rows by three columns grid. The left column consists of the five vowels, in the same order as the columns in the Gojūon table ( a , i , u , e , o ), while the central and right column consists of letters for the nine main voiceless consonants of kanas, in the same order as the rows in the Gojūon table ( k , s , t , n ...
HIRAGANA LETTER SA KATAKANA LETTER SA HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER SA HIRAGANA LETTER ZA KATAKANA LETTER ZA Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex dec hex dec hex Unicode: 12373: U+3055: 12469: U+30B5: 65403: U+FF7B: 12374: U+3056: 12470: U+30B6 UTF-8: 227 129 149: E3 81 95: 227 130 181: E3 82 B5: 239 189 187: EF BD BB: 227 129 150: E3 81 96: 227 ...
The small ke is a Japanese character, typographically a small form of the katakana character ケ ke. [1] While identical in shape to a small ケ, ヶ is actually an abbreviation for the kanji 箇, specifically by writing half of the bamboo radical 竹 . 箇, alternatively written as 個 (or 个), is a common Japanese counter word.