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[edit] Translingual

The Katakana script
Katakana halfwidth syllables
Additional symbols
Unicode: U+30F1Hiragana: Hepburn romanization: weNihon-shiki romanization: wePolivanov cyrillization: эJapanese braille:

[edit] Syllable

  1. The katakana syllable at ワ行エ段 (row WA, 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 .

[edit] Katakana character

(romaji we)

  1. (obsolete) The /we/ syllable.
  2. (rare) The /e/ syllable.
  3. The forty-sixth character in the gojūon ordering of katakana. The previous character is and the next character is . The equivalent hiragana character is .

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