in , or in , is an obsolete Japanese that is normally pronounced in current-day Japanese. The combination of a W-column kana letter with "" in was introduced to represent ein the 19th and 20th centuries. It is presumed that represented , and that and indicated different pronunciations until somewhere between the

Kamakura , officially , is a city of Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan. It is located in the Kanto region on the island of Honshu. The city has an estimated population of 172,929 (1 September 2020) and a population density of 4,359 people per km2 over the tota ...

and Taishō periods, when they both came to be pronounced as , later shifting to the modern . Along with the kana for ( in , in ), this was deemed obsolete in Japanese in 1946 and replaced with and . It is now rare in everyday usage; in onomatopoeia or foreign words, the katakana form (U- mall-e is used, as in for "west". The still sees some modern-day usage as a stylistic variant of . Ebisu is usually written as , but sometimes like ,京都ゑびす神社
/ref> and name of the beer , which is actually pronounced "Ebisu". The Japanese title of the '' Rebuild of Evangelion'' series is .

VTuber A or is an online entertainer who uses a virtual Avatar (computing), avatar generated using computer graphics. Real-time motion capture software or technology are often—but not always—used to capture movement. The digital trend originated i ...

Sakamata Chloe ( 沙花叉クロヱ) of

Hololive Production (; stylized in lowercase) is a virtual YouTuber agency owned by Japanese tech entertainment company Cover Corporation. In addition to acting as a multi-channel network, Hololive Production also handles licensing, merchandising, music product ...

uses Katakana ヱ (''we'') in place of the pronounced エ (''e''). is sometimes written with a , , to represent a sound in foreign words; however, most IMEs lack a convenient way to write this, and the

digraph Digraph, often misspelled as diagraph, may refer to: * Digraph (orthography), a pair of characters used together to represent a single sound, such as "nq" in Hmong RPA * Ligature (writing), the joining of two letters as a single glyph, such as " ...

is far more common. The Meiji-era

Classical Japanese The , also called and sometimes simply called "Medieval Japanese", is the literary form of the Japanese language that was the standard until the early Shōwa period (1926–1989). It is based on Early Middle Japanese, the language as spoken d ...

version of the Bible renders

Jehovah Jehovah () is a Romanization, Latinization of the Hebrew language, Hebrew , one Tiberian vocalization, vocalization of the Tetragrammaton (YHWH), the proper name of the God in Judaism, God of Israel in the Hebrew BibleOld Testament. The Tetr ...

as (''Yehoba''), and (''ye'') is also used to transcribe any Hebrew name spelled with ''Je'' in English (pronounced "ye" in Hebrew, though), such as ; the modern Japanese version, on the other hand, only uses (''e''), hence (''Ehoba'') and (''Efuta''). is still used in several Okinawan orthographies for the mora . In the Ryūkyū University system, is also combined with a small (), to represent the sound . is used in Ainu for . In

wāpuro rōmaji , or kana spelling, is a style of romanization of Japanese originally devised for entering Japanese into while using a Western QWERTY keyboard. In Japanese, the more formal name is , literally "Roman character kana conversion". One conver ...

—that is, the string of letters used for input to produce ゑ or ヱ—the sequence is ''wye''.

Stroke order

Katakana letter We on a curtain sign - Shinjuku - 2024 Feb 13

The is made with one

stroke Stroke is a medical condition in which poor cerebral circulation, blood flow to a part of the brain causes cell death. There are two main types of stroke: brain ischemia, ischemic, due to lack of blood flow, and intracranial hemorrhage, hemor ...

. It resembles a that continues with a double-humped shape underneath. The 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

* Full Braille representation * Computer encodings

Stroke order

Other communicative representations

References

See also