E (kana)

Hiragana	Katakana
Stroke order
Unicode
U + 3048	U + 30A8
origin
衣	江
Transliteration
Kunrei :	e
Hepburn :	e
50 sounds board
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The kana え ( hiragana ) and エ ( katakana ) ( romanized e ) take fourth place in the Japanese alphabet . In the modern Gojūon system (五十 音) it is between う and お . In the Iroha , it takes 34th place between こ and て . In the adjacent table (sorted by columns, from right to left) え is in the first column (あ 行, "A column") and in the fourth row (え 段, "E row"). Both represent [e] .

shape	Rōmaji	Hiragana	Katakana
Normal a / i / u / e / o (あ 行a-gyō )	e	え	エ
	ei ee ē	え い, え ぃ え え, え ぇ え ー	エ イ, エ ィ エ エ, エ ェ エ ー

Derivation

え and エ have their origin, via Man'yōgana , in the Kanji 衣 and 江 respectively.

The outdated kana ゑ (we), as well as much later uses of the character へ (he), found its way into the modern Japanese language as え. The directed particleへ is pronounced "e" today, but is not written え. This is similar to は (ha) and を (wo), these kana are pronounced "wa" and "o" when used as grammatical particles.

When introduced or followed by / i / or / n /, the kana is often pronounced [ʲe] by speakers , which leads to romanization such as yen (written: え ん), yedo (え ど), yebisu (え び す), and so on.

variants

The reduced forms of the kana (ぇ, ェ) are used to represent foreign phones in the Japanese language, for example ヴ ェ (ve).

Transliteration

In the Hepburn system , Kunrei-shiki and Nihon-shiki , systems for Romanization , both え and エ are transcribed with " e " . In the Polivanov system for transliteration into Cyrillic , the kana are translated with " э ".

Stroke order

Stroke sequence for え

Stroke sequence for エ

The hiragana え is drawn with two lines :

1. Above center, a short diagonal to the bottom right.
2. Middle left, first diagonally to the right and slightly up, then further diagonally to the left and down and followed by an arc to the right, similar to the written "n".

The katakana エ consists of three strokes:

1. Above, a horizontal line from left to right.
2. In the middle of the first stroke, a line straight down.
3. Below, a horizontal line, slightly wider than the first, through the end of the second line.

Other forms of representation

• In Japanese Braille :

• The Wabun code is - ・ －－－.
• In the Japanese spelling table it is spelled as "英語 の エ" (Eigo no E).

Web links

Wiktionary: え  - Explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations