He (kana)

"へ" redirects here. Not to be confused with ゝ (a Japanese iteration mark), ᄾ (an obsolete Korean hangul letter), or ㄟ (a Chinese bopomofo letter).

Character of the Japanese writing system

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transliteration| He
hiragana origin| 部
katakana origin| 部
Man'yōgana| 平 反 返 弁 弊 陛 遍 覇 部 辺 重 隔 閉 倍 陪 拝 戸 経
Voiced Man'yōgana| 弁 便 別 部 倍 毎
spelling kana| 平和のヘ Heiwa no "he"
unicode| U+3078, U+30D8
braille|
pronunciation| he
Note: This syllable was historically pronounced as "Pe", with one of two different vowel sounds, which later merged
kana gojūon

| wa| ra| ya| ma| ha| na| ta| sa| ka| a

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wi| ri| yi| mi| hi| ni| chi| shi| ki| i
wu| ru| yu| mu| fu| nu| tsu| su| ku| u
we| re| ye| me| he| ne| te| se| ke| e
wo| ro| yo| mo| ho| no| to| so| ko| o
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Kana modifiers and marks

* sokuonfu (gemination)
* yōon (palatalization)
* chōonpu (vowel lengthener)
* Iteration marks
* dakuten/handakuten (voiced & semi-voiced marks)

Multi-syllabic kana

* iu
* kashiko
* koto
* sama
* shite
* toki
* tomo
* nari
* mairasesoro
* yori

* v
* t
* e

へ, in hiragana, or ヘ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which represents one mora. The he sound is the only sound that is written identically in hiragana and katakana and therefore confusable according to the Unicode Standard. In the Sakhalin dialect of the Ainu language, ヘ can be written as small ㇸ to represent a final h after an e sound (エㇸ eh).

Forms  | Rōmaji | Hiragana | Katakana | Example words (with kanji)

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Normal h-
(は行 ha-gyō)  | he | へ  | ヘ  |

* へび hebi 蛇 snake
* へる heru 減る abate/decrease
* へんか henka 変化 change/modification
* へい hei 塀 wall
* へいあん heian 平安 tranquility

hei
hee
hē | へい, へぃ
へえ, へぇ
へー  | ヘイ, ヘィ
ヘエ, ヘェ

Addition dakuten b-
(ば行 ba-gyō)  | be | べ  | ベ  |

* かべ kabe 壁 wall
* べんきょう benkyō 勉強 studying
* ベッド beddo bed
* なんべい nanbei 南米 South America

bei
bee
bē | べい, べぃ
べえ, べぇ
べー  | ベイ, ベィ
ベエ, ベェ

Addition handakuten p-
(ぱ行 pa-gyō)  | pe | ぺ  | ペ  |

* いっぺん ippen 一辺 on a side
* ペルー perū Peru

pei
pee
pē | ぺい, ぺぃ
ぺえ, ぺぇ
ぺー  | ペイ, ペィ
ペエ, ペェ

## Stroke order[edit]

Stroke order in writing へ | Stroke order in writing ヘ

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Stroke order in writing へ Stroke order in writing ヘ

## Other communicative representations[edit]

Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code

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平和のヘ
Heiwa no "He" |  ▄

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Japanese Navy Signal Flag | Japanese semaphore | Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling)  | Braille dots-12346
Japanese Braille

* Full Braille representation

へ / ヘ in Japanese Braille

へ / ヘ
he | べ / ベ
be | ぺ / ペ
pe | へい / ヘー
hē/hei | べい / ベー
bē/bei | ぺい / ペー
pē/pei
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* Computer encodings

Character information  Preview | へ | ヘ | ﾍ | ㇸ | ㋬

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Unicode name  | HIRAGANA LETTER HE  | KATAKANA LETTER HE  | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER HE  | KATAKANA LETTER SMALL HE  | CIRCLED KATAKANA HE
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex
Unicode | 12408 | U+3078 | 12504 | U+30D8 | 65421 | U+FF8D | 12792 | U+31F8 | 13036 | U+32EC
UTF-8 | 227 129 184 | E3 81 B8 | 227 131 152 | E3 83 98 | 239 190 141 | EF BE 8D | 227 135 184 | E3 87 B8 | 227 139 172 | E3 8B AC
Numeric character reference | &#12408; | &#x3078; | &#12504; | &#x30D8; | &#65421; | &#xFF8D; | &#12792; | &#x31F8; | &#13036; | &#x32EC;
Shift JIS (plain)[1] | 130 214 | 82 D6 | 131 119 | 83 77 | 205 | CD |  |  |  |
Shift JIS-2004[2] | 130 214 | 82 D6 | 131 119 | 83 77 | 205 | CD | 131 244 | 83 F4 |  |
EUC-JP (plain)[3] | 164 216 | A4 D8 | 165 216 | A5 D8 | 142 205 | 8E CD |  |  |  |
EUC-JIS-2004[4] | 164 216 | A4 D8 | 165 216 | A5 D8 | 142 205 | 8E CD | 166 246 | A6 F6 |  |
GB 18030[5] | 164 216 | A4 D8 | 165 216 | A5 D8 | 132 49 154 49 | 84 31 9A 31 | 129 57 189 50 | 81 39 BD 32 |  |
EUC-KR[6] / UHC[7] | 170 216 | AA D8 | 171 216 | AB D8 |  |  |  |  |  |
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[8] | 198 220 | C6 DC | 199 112 | C7 70 |  |  |  |  |  |
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[9] | 199 95 | C7 5F | 199 212 | C7 D4 |  |  |  |  |  |
Character information  Preview | べ | ベ | ぺ | ペ

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Unicode name  | HIRAGANA LETTER BE  | KATAKANA LETTER BE  | HIRAGANA LETTER PE  | KATAKANA LETTER PE
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex
Unicode | 12409 | U+3079 | 12505 | U+30D9 | 12410 | U+307A | 12506 | U+30DA
UTF-8 | 227 129 185 | E3 81 B9 | 227 131 153 | E3 83 99 | 227 129 186 | E3 81 BA | 227 131 154 | E3 83 9A
Numeric character reference | &#12409; | &#x3079; | &#12505; | &#x30D9; | &#12410; | &#x307A; | &#12506; | &#x30DA;
Shift JIS[1] | 130 215 | 82 D7 | 131 120 | 83 78 | 130 216 | 82 D8 | 131 121 | 83 79
EUC-JP[3] | 164 217 | A4 D9 | 165 217 | A5 D9 | 164 218 | A4 DA | 165 218 | A5 DA
GB 18030[5] | 164 217 | A4 D9 | 165 217 | A5 D9 | 164 218 | A4 DA | 165 218 | A5 DA
EUC-KR[6] / UHC[7] | 170 217 | AA D9 | 171 217 | AB D9 | 170 218 | AA DA | 171 218 | AB DA
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[8] | 198 221 | C6 DD | 199 113 | C7 71 | 198 222 | C6 DE | 199 114 | C7 72
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[9] | 199 96 | C7 60 | 199 213 | C7 D5 | 199 97 | C7 61 | 199 214 | C7 D6

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-03-08]. "Shift-JIS to Unicode".
2. ^ Project X0213 (2009-05-03). "Shift_JIS-2004 (JIS X 0213:2004 Appendix 1) vs Unicode mapping table".
3. ^ a b 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".
5. ^ a b Standardization Administration of China (SAC) (2005-11-18). GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set.
6. ^ a b Unicode Consortium; IBM. "IBM-970". International Components for Unicode.
7. ^ a b Steele, Shawn (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". Microsoft / Unicode Consortium.
8. ^ a b Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-02-11]. "BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".
9. ^ a b van Kesteren, Anne. "big5". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.

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