Re (kana)

れ, in hiragana, or レ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. The hiragana is written in two strokes, while katakana in one. Both represent the sound [ɾe] ^ⓘ. The shapes of these kana have origins in the character 礼. The Ainu language uses a small katakana ㇾ to represent a final r sound after an e sound (エㇾ er). The combination of an R-column kana letter with handakuten ゜- れ゚ in hiragana, and レ゚ in katakana was introduced to represent [le] in the early 20th century.^{[according to whom?]}

Form	Rōmaji	Hiragana	Katakana
Normal r- (ら行 ra-gyō)	re	れ	レ
	rei ree rē	れい, れぃ れえ, れぇ れー	レイ, レィ レエ, レェ レー

re
hiragana katakana
transliteration	re
hiragana origin	礼
katakana origin	礼
Man'yōgana	礼 列 例 烈 連
spelling kana	れんげのレ Renge no "re"
unicode	U+308C, U+30EC
braille

Stroke order

Stroke order in writing れ

Stroke order in writing レ

Stroke order in writing れ

Stroke order in writing レ

Other communicative representations

Japanese radiotelephony alphabet	Wabun code
れんげのレ Renge no "Re"	▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ⓘ

Japanese Navy Signal Flag	Japanese semaphore	Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling)	Braille dots-1245 Japanese Braille

• Full Braille representation

れ / レ in Japanese Braille
れ / レ re	れい / レー rē/rei

• Computer encodings

Character information

Preview	れ		レ		ﾚ		ㇾ		㋹
Unicode name	HIRAGANA LETTER RE		KATAKANA LETTER RE		HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER RE		KATAKANA LETTER SMALL RE		CIRCLED KATAKANA RE
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	12428	U+308C	12524	U+30EC	65434	U+FF9A	12798	U+31FE	13049	U+32F9
UTF-8	227 130 140	E3 82 8C	227 131 172	E3 83 AC	239 190 154	EF BE 9A	227 135 190	E3 87 BE	227 139 185	E3 8B B9
Numeric character reference	れ	れ	レ	レ	ﾚ	ﾚ	ㇾ	ㇾ	㋹	㋹
Shift JIS (plain)[1]	130 234	82 EA	131 140	83 8C	218	DA
Shift JIS-2004[2]	130 234	82 EA	131 140	83 8C	218	DA	131 251	83 FB
EUC-JP (plain)[3]	164 236	A4 EC	165 236	A5 EC	142 218	8E DA
EUC-JIS-2004[4]	164 236	A4 EC	165 236	A5 EC	142 218	8E DA	166 253	A6 FD
GB 18030[5]	164 236	A4 EC	165 236	A5 EC	132 49 155 52	84 31 9B 34	129 57 189 56	81 39 BD 38
EUC-KR[6] / UHC[7]	170 236	AA EC	171 236	AB EC
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[8]	198 240	C6 F0	199 166	C7 A6
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[9]	199 115	C7 73	199 232	C7 E8

See also

• Japanese phonology