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Also known as HIRAGANA LETTER KE, ke

Hiragana letter Ke (U+3051)

Wikidata facts

Part of
Iroha
Country of origin
Japan
Image
Hiragana letter Ke.svg
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revised Hepburn romanization
ke
Unicode character
Commons category
Unicode code point
3051
Unicode block
Hiragana
writing system
hiragana
Unicode character name
HIRAGANA LETTER KE
HTML entity
け
stroke count
3
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Encyclopedic overview

Transliterationke Translit. with dakutenge Translit. with handakuten(nge) Hiragana origin計 Katakana origin介 Man'yōgana祁 家 計 係 價 結 鶏 気 既 毛 飼 消 Voiced man'yōgana下 牙 雅 夏 義 気 宜 礙 削 Spelling kana景色のケ (Keshiki no "ke") Note: These Man'yōgana originally represented morae with one of two different vowel sounds, which merged in later pronunciation.

Kana modifiers and marks

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