in , or in , is a nearly obsolete Japanese . The combination of a W-column kana letter with in was introduced to represent
ein the 19th century and 20th century.
It is presumed that represented , and that and indicated different pronunciations until somewhere between the
Kamakura period
The is a period of Japanese history that marks the governance by the Kamakura shogunate, officially established in 1192 in Kamakura by the first ''shōgun'' Minamoto no Yoritomo after the conclusion of the Genpei War, which saw the struggle bet ...
and the
Taishō period, 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 preferred, as in for "west".
The still sees some modern-day usage.
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
''Rebuild of Evangelion'', known in Japan and on Amazon Prime Video as , is a Japanese animated film series and a retelling of the original ''Neon Genesis Evangelion'' anime television series, produced by Studio Khara. Hideaki Anno served as t ...
'' series is . is sometimes written with a , , to represent a sound in foreign words; however, most IMEs lack a convenient way to write this, and the combination is far more common.
is still used in several Okinawan orthographies for the syllable . In the Ryūkyū University system, is also combined with a small (), to represent the sound . is used in Ainu for .
Stroke order
The is made with one stroke. 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
References
See also
* U (kana)
*E (kana)
In Japanese writing, the kana え (hiragana) and エ (katakana) ( romanised ''e'') occupy the fourth place, between う and お, in the modern Gojūon (五十音) system of collating kana. In the Iroha, they occupy the 34th, between こ and ...
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Specific kana