け, in
hiragana or ケ in
katakana, is one of the Japanese
kana, 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 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 (゜) does not occur with ''ke'' in normal Japanese text, but it may be used by linguists to indicate a
nasal
Nasal is an adjective referring to the nose, part of human or animal anatomy. It may also be shorthand for the following uses in combination:
* With reference to the human nose:
** Nasal administration, a method of pharmaceutical drug delivery
** ...
pronunciation .
Stroke order
Other communicative representations
* Full Braille representation
*
Computer encodings
References
See also
*
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