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He (kana)

he
hiragana katakana
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

へ, in hiragana, or ヘinkatakana, 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]).

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.

Stroke order[edit]

The stroke order is identical between hiragana and katakana.

Other communicative representations[edit]

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

• Full Braille representation

へ / ヘinJapanese 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

• Computer encodings

See Also[edit]

• Japanese particles: へ

References[edit]

Look up へ, べ, or ぺ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.