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For the abbreviation, see ヶ. Character of the Japanese writing system
ke
hiragana
japanese hiragana ke		 katakana
japanese katakana ke
transliterationke
translit. with dakutenge
translit. with handakuten(nge)
hiragana origin計
katakana origin介
Man'yōgana祁 家 計 係 價 結 鶏 気 既 毛 飼 消
Voiced Man'yōgana下 牙 雅 夏 義 気 宜 礙 削
spelling kana景色のケ
(Keshiki no "ke")
Note: These Man'yōgana originally represented morae with one of two different vowel sounds, which merged in later pronunciation.
kana gojūon
warayamahanatasakaa
wiri(yi)mihinichishikii
(wu)ruyumufunutsusukuu
were(ye)mehenetesekee
woroyomohonotosokoo
n
Kana modifiers and marks
Multi-moraic kana

け, (in hiragana) or ケ, (in katakana) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. Both represent . The shape of these kana come from the kanji 計 and 介, respectively.

A dakuten may be added to this character; this changes it to げ in hiragana, ゲ in katakana, ge in Hepburn romanization and the pronunciation shifts to in initial positions and varying between and in the middle of words.

A handakuten (゜) does not occur with ke in normal Japanese text, but it may be used by linguists to indicate a nasal pronunciation .

Form Rōmaji Hiragana Katakana
Normal k-
(か行 ka-gyō) 		ke け ケ
kei
kee
kē 		けい, けぃ
けえ, けぇ
けー 		ケイ, ケィ
ケエ, ケェ
ケー
Addition dakuten g-
(が行 ga-gyō) 		ge げ ゲ
gei
gee
gē 		げい, げぃ
げえ, げぇ
げー 		ゲイ, ゲィ
ゲエ, ゲェ
ゲー

Stroke order

Stroke order in writing け
Stroke order in writing け
Stroke order in writing ケ
Stroke order in writing ケ
Stroke order in writing け
Stroke order in writing ケ

Other communicative representations

Japanese radiotelephony alphabet Wabun code
景色のケ
Keshiki no "Ke" 		  ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ 

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Japanese Navy Signal Flag Japanese semaphore Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling) Braille dots-1246
Japanese Braille
  • Full Braille representation
け / ケ in Japanese Braille
け / ケ
ke		 げ / ゲ
ge		 けい / ケー
kē/kei		 げい / ゲー
gē/gei
⠫ (braille pattern dots-1246) ⠐ (braille pattern dots-5)⠫ (braille pattern dots-1246) ⠫ (braille pattern dots-1246)⠒ (braille pattern dots-25) ⠐ (braille pattern dots-5)⠫ (braille pattern dots-1246)⠒ (braille pattern dots-25)
Character information
Preview け ケ ｹ ゖ ヶ
Unicode name HIRAGANA LETTER KE KATAKANA LETTER KE HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER KE HIRAGANA LETTER SMALL KE KATAKANA LETTER SMALL KE
Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex dec hex dec hex
Unicode 12369 U+3051 12465 U+30B1 65401 U+FF79 12438 U+3096 12534 U+30F6
UTF-8 227 129 145 E3 81 91 227 130 177 E3 82 B1 239 189 185 EF BD B9 227 130 150 E3 82 96 227 131 182 E3 83 B6
Numeric character reference け け ケ ケ ｹ ｹ ゖ ゖ ヶ ヶ
Shift JIS (plain) 130 175 82 AF 131 80 83 50 185 B9 131 150 83 96
Shift JIS-2004 130 175 82 AF 131 80 83 50 185 B9 130 244 82 F4 131 150 83 96
EUC-JP (plain) 164 177 A4 B1 165 177 A5 B1 142 185 8E B9 165 246 A5 F6
EUC-JIS-2004 164 177 A4 B1 165 177 A5 B1 142 185 8E B9 164 246 A4 F6 165 246 A5 F6
GB 18030 164 177 A4 B1 165 177 A5 B1 132 49 152 49 84 31 98 31 129 57 166 56 81 39 A6 38 165 246 A5 F6
EUC-KR / UHC 170 177 AA B1 171 177 AB B1 171 246 AB F6
Big5 (non-ETEN kana) 198 181 C6 B5 199 73 C7 49 199 176 C7 B0
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS) 198 247 C6 F7 199 173 C7 AD 199 242 C7 F2
Character information
Preview げ ゲ け゚ ケ゚ ㋘
Unicode name HIRAGANA LETTER GE KATAKANA LETTER GE HIRAGANA LETTER BIDAKUON NGE KATAKANA LETTER BIDAKUON NGE CIRCLED KATAKANA KE
Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex dec hex dec hex
Unicode 12370 U+3052 12466 U+30B2 12369 12442 U+3051+309A 12465 12442 U+30B1+309A 13016 U+32D8
UTF-8 227 129 146 E3 81 92 227 130 178 E3 82 B2 227 129 145 227 130 154 E3 81 91 E3 82 9A 227 130 177 227 130 154 E3 82 B1 E3 82 9A 227 139 152 E3 8B 98
Numeric character reference げ げ ゲ ゲ け゚ け゚ ケ゚ ケ゚ ㋘ ㋘
Shift JIS (plain) 130 176 82 B0 131 81 83 51
Shift JIS-2004 130 176 82 B0 131 81 83 51 130 248 82 F8 131 154 83 9A
EUC-JP (plain) 164 178 A4 B2 165 178 A5 B2
EUC-JIS-2004 164 178 A4 B2 165 178 A5 B2 164 250 A4 FA 165 250 A5 FA
GB 18030 164 178 A4 B2 165 178 A5 B2
EUC-KR / UHC 170 178 AA B2 171 178 AB B2
Big5 (non-ETEN kana) 198 182 C6 B6 199 74 C7 4A
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS) 198 248 C6 F8 199 174 C7 AE

References

  1. ^ Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) . "Shift-JIS to Unicode".
  2. ^ Project X0213 (2009-05-03). "Shift_JIS-2004 (JIS X 0213:2004 Appendix 1) vs Unicode mapping table".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ Unicode Consortium; IBM. "EUC-JP-2007". International Components for Unicode.
  4. ^ Project X0213 (2009-05-03). "EUC-JIS-2004 (JIS X 0213:2004 Appendix 3) vs Unicode mapping table".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ Standardization Administration of China (SAC) (2005-11-18). GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set.
  6. ^ Unicode Consortium; IBM. "IBM-970". International Components for Unicode.
  7. ^ Steele, Shawn (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". Microsoft / Unicode Consortium.
  8. ^ Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) . "BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".
  9. ^ van Kesteren, Anne. "big5". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.
  10. ^ Unicode Consortium. "Unicode Named Character Sequences". Unicode Character Database.

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