Me (kana)

め, in hiragana, or メ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. Both versions of the kana are written in two strokes and represent [me].

Form	Rōmaji	Hiragana	Katakana
Normal m- (ま行 ma-gyō)	me	め	メ
	mei mee mē	めい, めぃ めえ, めぇ めー	メイ, メィ メエ, メェ メー

me
Hiragana Katakana
Transliteration	me
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"
Unicode	U+3081, U+30E1
Braille
Note: These Man'yōgana originally represented morae with one of two different vowel sounds, which merged in later pronunciation

Stroke order

Stroke order in writing め

Stroke order in writing メ

Stroke order in writing め

Stroke order in writing メ

Other communicative representations

Japanese radiotelephony alphabet	Wabun code
明治のメ Meiji no "Me"	▄▄▄ ▄ ▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ⓘ

Japanese Navy Signal Flag	Japanese semaphore	Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling)	Braille dots-123456 Japanese Braille

• Full Braille representation

め / メ in Japanese Braille
め / メ me	めい / メー mē/mei

• Computer encodings

Character information

Preview	め		メ		ﾒ		㋱
Unicode name	HIRAGANA LETTER ME		KATAKANA LETTER ME		HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER ME		CIRCLED KATAKANA ME
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	12417	U+3081	12513	U+30E1	65426	U+FF92	13041	U+32F1
UTF-8	227 130 129	E3 82 81	227 131 161	E3 83 A1	239 190 146	EF BE 92	227 139 177	E3 8B B1
Numeric character reference	め	め	メ	メ	ﾒ	ﾒ	㋱	㋱
Shift JIS[1]	130 223	82 DF	131 129	83 81	210	D2
EUC-JP[2]	164 225	A4 E1	165 225	A5 E1	142 210	8E D2
GB 18030[3]	164 225	A4 E1	165 225	A5 E1	132 49 154 54	84 31 9A 36
EUC-KR[4] / UHC[5]	170 225	AA E1	171 225	AB E1
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[6]	198 229	C6 E5	199 121	C7 79
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[7]	199 104	C7 68	199 221	C7 DD