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Also known as HIRAGANA LETTER ME, me

Hiragana letter Me (U+3081)

Wikidata facts

Part of
Iroha
Country of origin
Japan
Image
Hiragana letter Me.svg
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stroke count
2
Unicode code point
3081
writing system
hiragana
Unicode character
revised Hepburn romanization
me
Commons category
Unicode block
Hiragana
Unicode character name
HIRAGANA LETTER ME
HTML entity
め
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Encyclopedic overview

Transliterationme Hiragana origin女 Katakana origin女 Man'yōgana売 馬 面 女 梅 米 迷 昧 目 眼 海 Spelling kana明治のメ Meiji no "me" UnicodeU+3081, U+30E1 Braille 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 “め” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.