Me (kana)

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me
hiragana
japanese hiragana me
katakana
japanese katakana me
transliterationme
hiragana origin
katakana origin
Man'yōgana売 馬 面 女 梅 米 迷 昧 目 眼 海
spelling kana明治のメ Meiji no "me"
unicodeU+3081, U+30E1
braille⠿
Note: These Man'yōgana originally represented syllables with one of two different vowel sounds, which merged in later pronunciation

, in hiragana, or in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. Both versions of the kana are written in two strokes and represent [me].

Form Rōmaji Hiragana Katakana
Normal m-
(ま行 ma-gyō)
me
mei
mee
めい, めぃ
めえ, めぇ
めー
メイ, メィ
メエ, メェ
メー

Stroke order

Stroke order in writing め
Stroke order in writing め
Stroke order in writing メ
Stroke order in writing メ
Stroke order in writing め
Stroke order in writing メ

Other communicative representations

  • Full Braille representation
め / メ in Japanese Braille
め / メ
me
めい / メー
/mei
⠿ (braille pattern dots-123456) ⠿ (braille pattern dots-123456)⠒ (braille pattern dots-25)
Character information
Preview
Unicode name HIRAGANA LETTER ME KATAKANA LETTER ME HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER ME CIRCLED KATAKANA ME
Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex dec hex
Unicode 12417 U+3081 12513 U+30E1 65426 U+FF92 13041 U+32F1
UTF-8 227 130 129 E3 82 81 227 131 161 E3 83 A1 239 190 146 EF BE 92 227 139 177 E3 8B B1
Numeric character reference め め メ メ メ メ ㋱ ㋱
Shift JIS[1] 130 223 82 DF 131 129 83 81 210 D2
EUC-JP[2] 164 225 A4 E1 165 225 A5 E1 142 210 8E D2
GB 18030[3] 164 225 A4 E1 165 225 A5 E1 132 49 154 54 84 31 9A 36
EUC-KR[4] / UHC[5] 170 225 AA E1 171 225 AB E1
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[6] 198 229 C6 E5 199 121 C7 79
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[7] 199 104 C7 68 199 221 C7 DD

References

  1. ^ Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-03-08]. "Shift-JIS to Unicode".
  2. ^ Unicode Consortium; IBM. "EUC-JP-2007". International Components for Unicode.
  3. ^ Standardization Administration of China (SAC) (2005-11-18). GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set.
  4. ^ Unicode Consortium; IBM. "IBM-970". International Components for Unicode.
  5. ^ Steele, Shawn (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". Microsoft / Unicode Consortium.
  6. ^ Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-02-11]. "BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".
  7. ^ van Kesteren, Anne. "big5". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.