け, in
hiragana
is a Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with ''katakana'' as well as ''kanji''.
It is a phonetic lettering system. The word ''hiragana'' literally means "flowing" or "simple" kana ("simple" originally as contrast ...
or ケ 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 f ...
, is one of the Japanese
kana
The term may refer to a number of syllabaries used to write Japanese phonological units, morae. Such syllabaries include (1) the original kana, or , which were Chinese characters (kanji) used phonetically to transcribe Japanese, the most p ...
, each of which represents one
mora
Mora may refer to:
People
* Mora (surname)
Places Sweden
* Mora, Säter, Sweden
* Mora, Sweden, the seat of Mora Municipality
* Mora Municipality, Sweden
United States
* Mora, Louisiana, an unincorporated community
* Mora, Minnesota, a city
* M ...
. Both represent . The shape of these kana come from the kanji 計 and 介, respectively.
A
dakuten
The , colloquially , is a diacritic most often used in the Japanese kana syllabaries to indicate that the consonant of a syllable should be pronounced voiced, for instance, on sounds that have undergone rendaku (sequential voicing).
The , ...
may be added to this character; this changes it to げ in hiragana, ゲ in katakana, ''ge'' in
Hepburn romanization and the pronunciation shifts to in initial positions and varying between and in the middle of words.
A
handakuten
The , colloquially , is a diacritic most often used in the Japanese kana syllabaries to indicate that the consonant of a syllable should be pronounced voiced, for instance, on sounds that have undergone rendaku (sequential voicing).
The , c ...
(゜) does not occur with ''ke'' in normal Japanese text, but it may be used by linguists to indicate a
nasal pronunciation .
Stroke order
Other communicative representations
* Full Braille representation
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Computer encodings
References
See also
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Small ke
The small ''ke'' () is a Japanese character, typographically a small form of the katakana character ''ke''.
While identical in shape to a small , is actually an abbreviation for the kanji , specifically by writing half of the bamboo radical ( ...
(ヶ)
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Specific kana