エ

エ U+30A8, エ KATAKANA LETTER E ← ェ [U+30A7] Katakana ォ → [U+30A9]

Redosled pisanja

From right-hand part of man'yōgana 江.

• MFA^(ključ): [e̞]

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エ (romaji e, alternative romaji [Old and Early Classical Japanese only] ye)

1. The katakana syllable エ (e). Its equivalent in hiragana is え (e). It is the četvrti syllable in the gojūon order; its position is ア行エ段 (a-gyō e-dan, “row a, section e”).
2. (obsolete) The katakana syllable エ (ye). Its equivalent in hiragana is 𛀁 (ye).

Za razliku od hiragana sistem, koji se koristi za reči japanskog jezika kanji ne pokriva, katakana rečnik se prvenstveno koristi transcription reči stranih jezika na japanski i pisanje loan words (collectively gairaigo), kao i da predstavlja onomatopoeias, tehničke i naučne pojmove, kao i imena biljaka, životinja i minerala. Nazivi japanskih kompanija, kao i određene rečenice japanskog jezika, ponekad se pišu katakana, a ne drugim sistemom. ^[unos]

Historically represented the ye syllable, when 𛀀 was used in its place for what is currently represented by エ. In katakana representations of Old and Early Classical Japanese (when e and ye were phonemically distinct, prior to their merger in the mid-Heian period), ye is instead represented by 𛄡 (a Meiji period invention), to avoid confusion with the modern use of エ to represent e.

• (Katakana) 片仮名; ア,ァ ,

イ,ィ ウゥ,ヴ エ,ェ, オォ, カヵガ, キギ, クグ, ケヶゲ, コゴ, サザ, シジ, スズ, セゼ, ソゾ, タダ, チヂ, ツッヅ, テデ, トド, ナ, ニ, ヌ, ネ, ノ, ハバパ, ヒビピ, フブプ, ヘベペ, ホボポ, マ, ミ, ム, メ, モ, ヤャ, ユュ, ヨョ, ラ, リ, ル, レ, ロ, ワ,ヮ, ヰ, ヱ, ヲ, ン, ー, ヽ, ヾ

• 𛀀