へ, in
hiragana
is a Japanese language, Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with ''katakana'' as well as ''kanji''.
It is a phonetic lettering system. The word ''hiragana'' means "common" or "plain" kana (originally also "easy", ...
, or ヘ in
katakana
is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji).
The word ''katakana'' means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana characters are derived fr ...
, is one of the Japanese
kana, which represents one
mora. The sound is the only sound that is written almost identically in hiragana and katakana and therefore confusable according to the
Unicode Standard. In the Sakhalin dialect of the
Ainu language, ヘ can be written as small ㇸ to represent a final after an sound (エㇸ ).
It is usually pronounced with the
aspirate before its vowel. It is also often used as
a grammatical particle indicating direction, which makes only the vowel sound .
Though the two forms へ and ヘ are usually rendered with a small difference between them, in order to match better with the appearance of other hiragana or katakana characters, they can often be rendered identically. A reader is not expected to distinguish one from the other without contextual clues.
Stroke order
The stroke order is similar between hiragana and katakana.
Other communicative representations
* Full Braille representation
*
Computer encodings
See Also
*
Japanese particles: へ
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:He (Kana)
Specific kana