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[edit] Translingual

The Katakana script
Katakana halfwidth syllables
Additional symbols
Unicode: U+30A8Hiragana: Hepburn romanization: eNihon-shiki romanization: ePolivanov cyrillization: эJapanese braille:

[edit] Syllable

  1. The katakana syllable at ア行エ段 (row A, section E) in a gojūon table.

[edit] Japanese

Stroke order
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[edit] Etymology

Simplified in the Heian period from the man'yōgana kanji , taken from the right part of the character.

[edit] Katakana character

(romaji e)

  1. The [e] phoneme, typically in words of non-Japanese origin.
  2. The fourth character in the gojūon ordering of katakana. The previous character is  (u) and the next character is  (o). The equivalent hiragana character is  (e).

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