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]).
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| transliteration | he | ||
| translit. with dakuten | be | ||
| translit. with handakuten | pe | ||
| 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 |  | ||
| Note: This mora was historically pronounced as "pe", with one of two different vowel sounds, which later merged. | |||
It is usually pronounced [he] with the aspirate [h] before its vowel. It is also often used as a grammatical particle indicating direction, which makes only the vowel sound [e].
Though the two forms へ and ヘ are usually rendered with a small difference between them, in order to match better with the appearance of other hiragana or katakana characters, they can often be rendered identically. A reader is not expected to distinguish one from the other without contextual clues.
| Forms | Rōmaji | Hiragana | Katakana | Example words (with kanji) |
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| Normal h- (は行 ha-gyō) |
he | へ | ヘ |
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| hei hee hē |
へい, へぃ へえ, へぇ へー |
ヘイ, ヘィ ヘエ, ヘェ ヘー | ||
| Addition dakuten b- (ば行 ba-gyō) |
be | べ | ベ |
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| bei bee bē |
べい, べぃ べえ, べぇ べー |
ベイ, ベィ ベエ, ベェ ベー | ||
| Addition handakuten p- (ぱ行 pa-gyō) |
pe | ぺ | ペ |
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| pei pee pē |
ぺい, ぺぃ ぺえ, ぺぇ ぺー |
ペイ, ペィ ペエ, ペェ ペー |
Stroke order
editThe stroke order is identical between hiragana and katakana.
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Other communicative representations
edit| Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code |
| 平和のヘ Heiwa no "He" |
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- Full Braille representation
| へ / ヘ in Japanese Braille | |||||
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| 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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| 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 | へ |
へ |
ヘ |
ヘ |
ﾍ |
ﾍ |
ㇸ |
ㇸ |
㋬ |
㋬ |
| 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 | ||||||
| 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 | べ |
べ |
ベ |
ベ |
ぺ |
ぺ |
ペ |
ペ |
| 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 |
See Also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-03-08]. "Shift-JIS to Unicode".
- ^ 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) - ^ a b Unicode Consortium; IBM. "EUC-JP-2007". International Components for Unicode.
- ^ 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) - ^ a b Standardization Administration of China (SAC) (2005-11-18). GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set.
- ^ a b Unicode Consortium; IBM. "IBM-970". International Components for Unicode.
- ^ a b Steele, Shawn (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". Microsoft / Unicode Consortium.
- ^ a b Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-02-11]. "BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".
- ^ a b van Kesteren, Anne. "big5". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.
