ゑ

ゑ in Hiragana or ヱ in Katakana is two kana, characters Japanese, which represent same the more. Marked, they is obsolete today. Their current pronunciation being identical to that of え and エ, they are replaced systematically by the latter.

Origin

The hiragana ゑ and the katakana ヱ come, via the Man' yōgana, of the Kanji 恵.

Romanisation

According to the systems of romanisation Hepburn, Kunrei and Nihon, ゑ and ヱ romanisent themselves in “we”.

Layout

The hiragana ゑ is written in only one milked length:
  1. Milks horizontal, from left to right, then milked diagonal towards the left, then setting out again towards the line according to an arc of almost closed circle which finishes by small buckles. The feature continues then according to a diagonal towards the left, before setting out again towards the line by forming two arcs of circle.

This C-W communication begins like that from る.

The katakana ヱ is written in three features:

  1. Milks horizontal, then diagonal towards the left.
  2. Small vertical feature, beginning at the end from the first.
  3. Milks horizontal, tangeant at the base of the second in its medium.

Data-processing representation

  • Unicode :
    • ゑ : U+3091
    • ヱ : U+30F1

See too

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