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Also known as HIRAGANA LETTER HE, he

Hiragana letter He (U+3078)

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Encyclopedic overview

Transliterationhe Translit. with dakutenbe Translit. with handakutenpe Hiragana origin部 Katakana origin部 Man'yōgana平 反 返 弁 弊 陛 遍 覇 部 辺 重 隔 閉 倍 陪 拝 戸 経 Voiced man'yōgana弁 便 別 部 倍 毎 Spelling kana平和のヘ Heiwa no "he" UnicodeU+3078, U+30D8 Braille Note: This mora was historically pronounced as "pe", with one of two different vowel sounds, which later merged.

Kana modifiers and marks

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