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Character of the Japanese writing system From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
け, (in hiragana) or ケ, (in katakana) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. Both represent [ke]. The shape of these kana come from the kanji 計 and 介, respectively.
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transliteration | ke | ||
translit. with dakuten | ge | ||
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. |
A dakuten may be added to this character; this changes it to げ in hiragana, ゲ in katakana, ge in Hepburn romanization and the pronunciation shifts to [ɡe] in initial positions and varying between [ŋe] and [ɣe] in the middle of words.
A handakuten (゜) does not occur with ke in normal Japanese text, but it may be used by linguists to indicate a nasal pronunciation [ŋe].
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Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code |
景色のケ Keshiki no "Ke" |
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Japanese Navy Signal Flag | Japanese semaphore | Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling) | Braille dots-1246 Japanese Braille |
け / ケ in Japanese Braille | |||
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け / ケ ke | げ / ゲ ge | けい / ケー kē/kei | げい / ゲー gē/gei |
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Preview | け | ケ | ケ | ゖ | ヶ | |||||
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Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER KE | KATAKANA LETTER KE | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER KE | HIRAGANA LETTER SMALL KE | KATAKANA LETTER SMALL KE | |||||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 12369 | U+3051 | 12465 | U+30B1 | 65401 | U+FF79 | 12438 | U+3096 | 12534 | U+30F6 |
UTF-8 | 227 129 145 | E3 81 91 | 227 130 177 | E3 82 B1 | 239 189 185 | EF BD B9 | 227 130 150 | E3 82 96 | 227 131 182 | E3 83 B6 |
Numeric character reference | け | け | ケ | ケ | ケ | ケ | ゖ | ゖ | ヶ | ヶ |
Shift JIS (plain)[1] | 130 175 | 82 AF | 131 80 | 83 50 | 185 | B9 | 131 150 | 83 96 | ||
Shift JIS-2004[2] | 130 175 | 82 AF | 131 80 | 83 50 | 185 | B9 | 130 244 | 82 F4 | 131 150 | 83 96 |
EUC-JP (plain)[3] | 164 177 | A4 B1 | 165 177 | A5 B1 | 142 185 | 8E B9 | 165 246 | A5 F6 | ||
EUC-JIS-2004[4] | 164 177 | A4 B1 | 165 177 | A5 B1 | 142 185 | 8E B9 | 164 246 | A4 F6 | 165 246 | A5 F6 |
GB 18030[5] | 164 177 | A4 B1 | 165 177 | A5 B1 | 132 49 152 49 | 84 31 98 31 | 129 57 166 56 | 81 39 A6 38 | 165 246 | A5 F6 |
EUC-KR[6] / UHC[7] | 170 177 | AA B1 | 171 177 | AB B1 | 171 246 | AB F6 | ||||
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[8] | 198 181 | C6 B5 | 199 73 | C7 49 | 199 176 | C7 B0 | ||||
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[9] | 198 247 | C6 F7 | 199 173 | C7 AD | 199 242 | C7 F2 |
Preview | げ | ゲ | け゚ | ケ゚ | ㋘ | |||||
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Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER GE | KATAKANA LETTER GE | HIRAGANA LETTER BIDAKUON NGE[10] | KATAKANA LETTER BIDAKUON NGE[10] | CIRCLED KATAKANA KE | |||||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 12370 | U+3052 | 12466 | U+30B2 | 12369 12442 | U+3051+309A | 12465 12442 | U+30B1+309A | 13016 | U+32D8 |
UTF-8 | 227 129 146 | E3 81 92 | 227 130 178 | E3 82 B2 | 227 129 145 227 130 154 | E3 81 91 E3 82 9A | 227 130 177 227 130 154 | E3 82 B1 E3 82 9A | 227 139 152 | E3 8B 98 |
Numeric character reference | げ | げ | ゲ | ゲ | け | け | ケ | ケ | ㋘ | ㋘ |
Shift JIS (plain)[1] | 130 176 | 82 B0 | 131 81 | 83 51 | ||||||
Shift JIS-2004[2] | 130 176 | 82 B0 | 131 81 | 83 51 | 130 248 | 82 F8 | 131 154 | 83 9A | ||
EUC-JP (plain)[3] | 164 178 | A4 B2 | 165 178 | A5 B2 | ||||||
EUC-JIS-2004[4] | 164 178 | A4 B2 | 165 178 | A5 B2 | 164 250 | A4 FA | 165 250 | A5 FA | ||
GB 18030[5] | 164 178 | A4 B2 | 165 178 | A5 B2 | ||||||
EUC-KR[6] / UHC[7] | 170 178 | AA B2 | 171 178 | AB B2 | ||||||
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[8] | 198 182 | C6 B6 | 199 74 | C7 4A | ||||||
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[9] | 198 248 | C6 F8 | 199 174 | C7 AE |
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