Re (kana)

, in hiragana, or in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. The hiragana is written in two strokes, while katakana in one. Both represent the sound [ɾe] (listen). The shapes of these kana have origins in the character 礼. The Ainu language uses a small katakana ㇾ to represent a final r sound after an e sound (エㇾ er). The combination of an R-column kana letter with ゜れ゚ in hiragana, and レ゚ in katakana was introduced to represent [le] in the early 20th century.

Form Rōmaji Hiragana Katakana
Normal r-
(ら行 ra-gyō)
re
rei
ree
れい, れぃ
れえ, れぇ
れー
レイ, レィ
レエ, レェ
レー
re
hiragana
katakana
transliterationre
hiragana origin
katakana origin
Man'yōgana礼 列 例 烈 連
spelling kanaれんげのレ Renge no "re"
unicodeU+308C, U+30EC
braille

Stroke order

Stroke order in writing れ
Stroke order in writing レ
Stroke order in writing れ
Stroke order in writing レ

Other communicative representations

  • Full Braille representation
れ / レ in Japanese Braille
れ / レ
re
れい / レー
/rei
Character information
Preview
Unicode nameHIRAGANA LETTER REKATAKANA LETTER REHALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER REKATAKANA LETTER SMALL RECIRCLED KATAKANA RE
Encodingsdecimalhexdecimalhexdecimalhexdecimalhexdecimalhex
Unicode12428U+308C12524U+30EC65434U+FF9A12798U+31FE13049U+32F9
UTF-8227 130 140E3 82 8C227 131 172E3 83 AC239 190 154EF BE 9A227 135 190E3 87 BE227 139 185E3 8B B9
Numeric character referenceれれレレレレㇾㇾ㋹㋹
Shift JIS (plain)[1]130 23482 EA131 14083 8C218DA
Shift JIS-2004[2]130 23482 EA131 14083 8C218DA131 25183 FB
EUC-JP (plain)[3]164 236A4 EC165 236A5 EC142 2188E DA
EUC-JIS-2004[4]164 236A4 EC165 236A5 EC142 2188E DA166 253A6 FD
GB 18030[5]164 236A4 EC165 236A5 EC132 49 155 5284 31 9B 34129 57 189 5681 39 BD 38
EUC-KR[6] / UHC[7]170 236AA EC171 236AB EC
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[8]198 240C6 F0199 166C7 A6
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[9]199 115C7 73199 232C7 E8

See also

References

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