げ

See also: け and け゚

げ U+3052, げ HIRAGANA LETTER GE Composition: け [U+3051] + ◌゙ [U+3099] ← け [U+3051] Hiragana こ → [U+3053]

Japanese

Stroke order

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɡe̞]

• IPA^(key): [ŋe̞] (morpheme-medial alternative pronunciation)

Etymology 1

The hiragana character け (ke) with a dakuten (゛).

Syllable

げ • (ge) 

1. The hiragana syllable げ (ge). Its equivalent in katakana is ゲ (ge).

See also

• (Hiragana) 平仮名; あぁ, いぃ, うぅゔ, えぇ, おぉ, かゕが, きぎ, くぐ, けゖげ, こご, さざ, しじ, すず, せぜ, そぞ, ただ, ちぢ, つっづ, てで, とど, な, に, ぬ, ね, の, はばぱ, ひびぴ, ふぶぷ, へべぺ, ほぼぽ, ま, み, む, め, も, やゃ, 𛀆, ゆゅ, 𛀁, よょ, ら, り, る, れ, ろ, わゎ, ゐ, 𛄟 (𛄟), ゑ, を, ん, ー, ゝ, ゞ, ゟ

Etymology 2

From 気 (ke, “spirit; mood; air”). Attested in the Kokin Wakashū.

Suffix

げ • (-ge) 

1. [from early 900s] (no longer productive) -esque; -ly; -ish; kind of; looks like... (attached to the stem form of an adjective, the continuative of verbs, and nouns)

   嬉(うれ)しげ、有(あ)り気(げ)、大人(おとな)気(げ)

   ureshige, arige, otonage

   feeling happy, the way of being, being adulty

   Synonyms: そう (-sō), らしい (-rashii) (both more common)

2. [from the early 1000s] (obsolete) a nominalizer suffixed by さ (-sa)
3. [from the early 900s] (obsolete) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Usage notes

• (senses 1 and 2): This word is used in psychological traits such as feelings; usage in physical traits such as color are seldom used.

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of げ – see the following entries.

【下】1 [noun] the last volume in a two- or three-volume set [noun] bottom, low

【夏】2 [noun] (Buddhism) summer according to the lunisolar calendar; the ninety days starting from the sixteenth day of the fourth month until the fifteenth day of the seventh month

【外】2 [noun] (Buddhism) non-Buddhist teachings or texts [noun] (in compounds) external

【牙】S [noun] an animal's fang or tusk [noun] an elephant's tusk: ivory [noun] a tooth

(This term, げ (ge), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.) For a list of all kanji read as げ, see Category:Japanese kanji read as げ.

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