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Also known as HIRAGANA LETTER E, e

Hiragana letter E (U+3048)

Wikidata facts

Part of
Iroha
Country of origin
Japan
Image
Hiragana letter E.svg
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writing system
hiragana
Unicode block
Hiragana
Unicode character name
HIRAGANA LETTER E
stroke count
2
Unicode code point
3048
HTML entity
え
Unicode character
revised Hepburn romanization
e
Commons category
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Encyclopedic overview

Transliteratione Hiragana origin衣 Katakana origin江 Man'yōgana衣 依 愛 榎 曳 延 要 遥 叡 兄 江 吉 枝 Spelling kana英語のエ (Eigo no "e") Note: The Man'yōgana represented either the "e" or "ye" mora, which merged in later pronunciation.

Kana modifiers and marks

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “え” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.