We (kana)

ゑ in hiragana, or ヱ in katakana, is a nearly obsolete Japanese kana.

we
transliteratione, we
hiragana origin恵
katakana origin恵
unicodeU+3091, U+30F1
braille
kana gojūon
warayamahanatasakaa
wirimihinichishikii
ruyumufunutsusukuu
weremehenetesekee
woroyomohonotosokoo

It is presumed that ゑ represented [ɰe] (listen) and that ゑ and え indicated different pronunciations until somewhere between the Kamakura period and the Taishō period when they both came to be pronounced as イェ [je] (listen), later shifting to the modern エ [e]. Along with the kana for wi (ゐ in hiragana, ヰ in katakana), this kana was deemed obsolete in Japanese in 1946 and replaced with え and エ. It is now rare in everyday usage; in onomatopoeia or foreign words, the katakana form ウェ (U-[small-e]) is preferred, as in "ウェスト" for "west".

The kana still sees some modern-day usage. Ebisu is usually written "えびす", but sometimes "ゑびす" like Kyōto Ebisu Shrine (京都ゑびす神社, Kyōto Ebisu Jinja),[1] and name of the beer Yebisu (ヱビス), which is actually pronounced "Ebisu". The Japanese title of the Rebuild of Evangelion series is Evangelion: New Theatrical Edition (ヱヴァンゲリヲン新劇場版, Evangerion Shin Gekijōban). Katakana ヱ is sometimes written with a dakuten, ヹ, to represent a /ve/ sound in foreign words; however, most IMEs lack a convenient way to write this and the combination ヴェ is far more common.

Hiragana ゑ is still used in several Okinawan orthographies for the syllable /we/. In the Ryūkyū University system, ゑ is also combined with a small ぃ, ゑぃ/ヱィ, to represent the sound /wi/. Katakana ヱ is used in Ainu for /we/.

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While being confused with E (kana) and We (kana) because their katakana are similar.

Stroke order
Stroke order in writing ゑ
Stroke order in writing ヱ
Stroke order in writing ゑ

The Hiragana ゑ is made with one stroke. It resembles a Hiragana る that continues with a double-humped ん shape underneath.

Stroke order in writing ヱ

The Katakana ヱ is made with three strokes:

  1. A horizontal line that hooks down and to the left.
  2. A vertical line, just grazing the end of the first stroke.
  3. A long horizontal line across the bottom.

Other communicative representations
  • Full Braille representation
ゑ / ヱ in Japanese Braille
ゑ / ヱ
we		ヹ
ve		ゑい / ヱー
wē/wei		ヹー
vē/vei
Character information
Previewゑヱ𛅑𛅥ヹ
Unicode nameHIRAGANA LETTER WEKATAKANA LETTER WEHIRAGANA LETTER SMALL WEKATAKANA LETTER SMALL WEKATAKANA LETTER VE
Encodingsdecimalhexdecimalhexdecimalhexdecimalhexdecimalhex
Unicode12433U+309112529U+30F1110929U+1B151110949U+1B16512537U+30F9
UTF-8227 130 145E3 82 91227 131 177E3 83 B1240 155 133 145F0 9B 85 91240 155 133 165F0 9B 85 A5227 131 185E3 83 B9
UTF-161243330911252930F155340 56657D82C DD5155340 56677D82C DD651253730F9
Numeric character referenceゑゑヱヱ𛅑𛅑𛅥𛅥ヹヹ
Shift JIS (plain)[2]130 23982 EF131 14583 91
Shift JIS (KanjiTalk 7)[3]130 23982 EF131 14583 91136 10888 6C
Shift JIS-2004[4]130 23982 EF131 14583 91132 14884 94
EUC-JP (plain)[5]164 241A4 F1165 241A5 F1
EUC-JIS-2004[6]164 241A4 F1165 241A5 F1167 244A7 F4
GB 18030[7]164 241A4 F1165 241A5 F1147 54 132 5193 36 84 33147 54 134 5193 36 86 33129 57 167 5581 39 A7 37
EUC-KR[8] / UHC[9]170 241AA F1171 241AB F1
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[10]198 245C6 F5199 171C7 AB
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[11]199 120C7 78199 237C7 ED
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References
  1. 京都ゑびす神社
  2. Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-03-08]. "Shift-JIS to Unicode".
  3. Apple Computer (2005-04-05) [1995-04-15]. "Map (external version) from Mac OS Japanese encoding to Unicode 2.1 and later". Unicode Consortium.
  4. Project X0213 (2009-05-03). "Shift_JIS-2004 (JIS X 0213:2004 Appendix 1) vs Unicode mapping table".
  5. Unicode Consortium; IBM. "EUC-JP-2007". International Components for Unicode.
  6. Project X0213 (2009-05-03). "EUC-JIS-2004 (JIS X 0213:2004 Appendix 3) vs Unicode mapping table".
  7. Standardization Administration of China (SAC) (2005-11-18). GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set.
  8. Unicode Consortium; IBM. "IBM-970". International Components for Unicode.
  9. Steele, Shawn (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". Microsoft / Unicode Consortium.
  10. Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-02-11]. "BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".
  11. van Kesteren, Anne. "big5". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.

See also
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