We (kana)
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| transliteration | e, we | ||
| hiragana origin | 恵 | ||
| katakana origin | 恵 | ||
| unicode | U+3091, U+30F1 | ||
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ゑ in hiragana, or ヱ in katakana, is a nearly obsolete Japanese kana.
It is presumed that ゑ represented [ɰe] and that ゑ and え indicated different pronunciations until somewhere between the Kamakura period and the Taishō period when they both came to be pronounced as イェ [je] , later shifting to the modern エ [e][citation needed]. Along with the kana for wi (ゐ in hiragana, ヰ in katakana), this kana was deemed obsolete in Japanese in 1946 and replaced with え and エ. It is now rare in everyday usage; in onomatopoeia or foreign words, the katakana form ウェ (U-[small-e]) is preferred, as in "ウェスト" for "west".
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/.
"Not to be confused with"... info
While being confused with E (kana) and We (kana) because their katakana are similar.
Stroke order
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The Hiragana ゑ is made with one stroke. It resembles a Hiragana る that continues with a double-humped ん shape underneath.
The Katakana ヱ is made with three strokes:
- A horizontal line that hooks down and to the left.
- A vertical line, just grazing the end of the first stroke.
- A long horizontal line across the bottom.
Other communicative representations
| Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code |
| かぎのあるヱ Kagi no aru "We" |
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| Japanese Navy Signal Flag | Japanese semaphore | Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling) | Braille dots-235 Japanese Braille |
- Full Braille representation
| 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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| Preview | ゑ | ヱ | 𛅑 | 𛅥 | ヹ | |||||
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| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER WE | KATAKANA LETTER WE | HIRAGANA LETTER SMALL WE | KATAKANA LETTER SMALL WE | KATAKANA LETTER VE | |||||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 12433 | U+3091 | 12529 | U+30F1 | 110929 | U+1B151 | 110949 | U+1B165 | 12537 | U+30F9 |
| UTF-8 | 227 130 145 | E3 82 91 | 227 131 177 | E3 83 B1 | 240 155 133 145 | F0 9B 85 91 | 240 155 133 165 | F0 9B 85 A5 | 227 131 185 | E3 83 B9 |
| UTF-16 | 12433 | 3091 | 12529 | 30F1 | 55340 56657 | D82C DD51 | 55340 56677 | D82C DD65 | 12537 | 30F9 |
| Numeric character reference | ゑ |
ゑ |
ヱ |
ヱ |
𛅑 |
𛅑 |
𛅥 |
𛅥 |
ヹ |
ヹ |
| Shift JIS (plain)[2] | 130 239 | 82 EF | 131 145 | 83 91 | ||||||
| Shift JIS (KanjiTalk 7)[3] | 130 239 | 82 EF | 131 145 | 83 91 | 136 108 | 88 6C | ||||
| Shift JIS-2004[4] | 130 239 | 82 EF | 131 145 | 83 91 | 132 148 | 84 94 | ||||
| EUC-JP (plain)[5] | 164 241 | A4 F1 | 165 241 | A5 F1 | ||||||
| EUC-JIS-2004[6] | 164 241 | A4 F1 | 165 241 | A5 F1 | 167 244 | A7 F4 | ||||
| GB 18030[7] | 164 241 | A4 F1 | 165 241 | A5 F1 | 147 54 132 51 | 93 36 84 33 | 147 54 134 51 | 93 36 86 33 | 129 57 167 55 | 81 39 A7 37 |
| EUC-KR[8] / UHC[9] | 170 241 | AA F1 | 171 241 | AB F1 | ||||||
| Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[10] | 198 245 | C6 F5 | 199 171 | C7 AB | ||||||
| Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[11] | 199 120 | C7 78 | 199 237 | C7 ED | ||||||
References
- ^ 京都ゑびす神社
- ^ Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-03-08]. "Shift-JIS to Unicode".
- ^ Apple Computer (2005-04-05) [1995-04-15]. "Map (external version) from Mac OS Japanese encoding to Unicode 2.1 and later". Unicode Consortium.
- ^ Project X0213 (2009-05-03). "Shift_JIS-2004 (JIS X 0213:2004 Appendix 1) vs Unicode mapping table".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Unicode Consortium; IBM. "EUC-JP-2007". International Components for Unicode.
- ^ Project X0213 (2009-05-03). "EUC-JIS-2004 (JIS X 0213:2004 Appendix 3) vs Unicode mapping table".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Standardization Administration of China (SAC) (2005-11-18). GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set.
- ^ Unicode Consortium; IBM. "IBM-970". International Components for Unicode.
- ^ Steele, Shawn (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". Microsoft / Unicode Consortium.
- ^ Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-02-11]. "BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".
- ^ van Kesteren, Anne. "big5". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.
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