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Character  め 
Unicode name HIRAGANA LETTER ME
Codepoint U+3081
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Stroke order
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Etymology [edit]

Derived in the Heian period from writing the man'yōgana kanji in the cursive sōsho style.

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Syllable [edit]

(Hepburn romanization me)

  1. The hiragana syllable  (me), whose equivalent in katakana is  (me). It is the thirty-fourth syllable of the gojūon order, and its position in gojūon tables is (MA-gyō, E-dan; “row MA, section E”).

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Noun [edit]

(romaji me)

  1. : eye
    がかゆいです。
    がかゆいです。
    Me ga kayui desu.
    My eyes feel itchy.
  2. : bud, sprout

Suffix [edit]

(kanji , romaji me)

  1. -st, -nd, -rd, -th (marks ordinals)