wē

See also: Appendix:Variations of "we"

Hawaiian

Noun

wē

1. The name of the Latin script letter W/w.

Japanese

Romanization

wē

1. Rōmaji transcription of ウェー

Mandarin

Alternative forms

• we — nonstandard

Romanization

wē (we¹, Zhuyin ㄨㄝ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of V

Māori

Etymology

Monophthongization (thus also doublet) of wai, see there for more details.

Noun

wē

1. water
2. liquid

   Synonym: wai

Further reading

• Williams, Herbert William (1917), “wē”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, pages 564–5
• John C. Moorfield (2011), “wē”, in Te Aka: Māori–English, English–Māori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, →ISBN