We (kana)
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transliteration | e, we | |||
hiragana origin | 恵 | |||
katakana origin | 恵 |
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ゑ, in hiragana, or ヱ in katakana, is a nearly obsolete Japanese kana.
It is presumed that ゑ represented [ɰe] (
The kana still sees some modern-day usage. Ebisu is usually written "えびす", but sometimes "ゑびす" like Kyōto Ebisu Shrine (京都ゑびす神社 Kyōto Ebisu Jinja),[1] and name of the beer Yebisu (ヱビス), which is actually pronounced "Ebisu". The Japanese title of the Rebuild of Evangelion series is Evangelion: New Theatrical Edition (ヱヴァンゲリヲン新劇場版 Evangerion Shin Gekijōban). Katakana ヱ is sometimes written with a dakuten, ヹ, to represent a /ve/ sound in foreign words; however, most IMEs lack a convenient way to write this and the combination ヴェ is far more common.
Hiragana ゑ is still used in several Okinawan orthographies for the syllable /we/. In the Ryūkyū University system, ゑ is also combined with a small ぃ, ゑぃ/ヱィ, to represent the sound /wi/. Katakana ヱ is used in Ainu for /we/.
Stroke order
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Other representations
Character | ゑ | ヱ | ||
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Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER WE | KATAKANA LETTER WE | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
Unicode | 12433 | U+3091 | 12529 | U+30F1 |
UTF-8 | 227 130 145 | E3 82 91 | 227 131 177 | E3 83 B1 |
Numeric character reference | ゑ | ゑ | ヱ | ヱ |
Shift JIS | 130 239 | 82 EF | 131 145 | 83 91 |
- Braille
ゑ / ヱ in Japanese Braille | |||
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ゑ / ヱ we | ヹ ve | ゑい / ヱー wē/wei | ヹー vē/vei |
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References
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Look up ゑ or ヱ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |