Re (kana)

re
re
hiragana;	katakana;
transliteration	re
hiragana origin	礼
katakana origin	礼
spelling kana	れんげのレ Renge no "re"
unicode	U+308C, U+30EC
braille

れ, in hiragana, or レ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. The hiragana is written in two strokes, while katakana in one. Both represent the sound [ɾe] ^ⓘ. The shapes of these kana have origins in the character 礼. The Ainu language uses a small katakana ㇾ to represent a final r sound after an e sound (エㇾ er).

Form	Rōmaji	Hiragana	Katakana
Normal r- (ら行 ra-gyō)	re	れ	レ
Normal r- (ら行 ra-gyō)	rei ree rē	れい, れぃれえ, れぇれー	レイ, レィレエ, レェレー

Stroke order

Stroke order in writing れ

Stroke order in writing レ

Other communicative representations

Japanese radiotelephony alphabet	Wabun code
れんげのレ Renge no "Re"	▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ^ⓘ


Japanese Navy Signal Flag	Japanese semaphore	Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling)	Braille dots-1245 Japanese Braille

Full Braille representation

れ / レ in Japanese Braille
れ / レ re	れい / レー rē/rei

Computer encodings

Character information
Preview	れ		レ		ﾚ		ㇾ
Unicode name	HIRAGANA LETTER RE		KATAKANA LETTER RE		HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER RE		KATAKANA LETTER SMALL RE
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	12428	U+308C	12524	U+30EC	65434	U+FF9A	12798	U+31FE
UTF-8	227 130 140	E3 82 8C	227 131 172	E3 83 AC	239 190 154	EF BE 9A	227 135 190	E3 87 BE
Numeric character reference	れ	れ	レ	レ	ﾚ	ﾚ	ㇾ	ㇾ
Shift JIS	130 234	82 EA	131 140	83 8C	218	DA

Stroke order

Other communicative representations

See also