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| transliteration | me | ||
| hiragana origin | 女 | ||
| katakana origin | 女 | ||
| Man'yōgana | 売 馬 面 女 梅 米 迷 昧 目 眼 海 | ||
| spelling kana | 明治のメ Meiji no "me" | ||
| unicode | U+3081, U+30E1 | ||
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| Note: These Man'yōgana originally represented syllables with one of two different vowel sounds, which merged in later pronunciation | |||
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め, in hiragana, or メinkatakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. Both versions of the kana are written in two strokes and represent [me].
| Form | Rōmaji | Hiragana | Katakana |
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| Normal m- (ま行 ma-gyō) |
me | め | メ |
| mei mee mē |
めい, めぃ めえ, めぇ めー |
メイ, メィ メエ, メェ メー |
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| Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code |
| 明治のメ Meiji no "Me" |
▄▄▄ ▄ ▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ⓘ |
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| Japanese Navy Signal Flag | Japanese semaphore | Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling) | Braille dots-123456 Japanese Braille |
| め / メinJapanese Braille | |
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| め / メ me |
めい / メー mē/mei |
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| Preview | め | メ | メ | ㋱ | ||||
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| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER ME | KATAKANA LETTER ME | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER ME | CIRCLED KATAKANA ME | ||||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 12417 | U+3081 | 12513 | U+30E1 | 65426 | U+FF92 | 13041 | U+32F1 |
| UTF-8 | 227 130 129 | E3 82 81 | 227 131 161 | E3 83 A1 | 239 190 146 | EF BE 92 | 227 139 177 | E3 8B B1 |
| Numeric character reference | め |
め |
メ |
メ |
ﾒ |
ﾒ |
㋱ |
㋱ |
| Shift JIS[1] | 130 223 | 82 DF | 131 129 | 83 81 | 210 | D2 | ||
| EUC-JP[2] | 164 225 | A4 E1 | 165 225 | A5 E1 | 142 210 | 8E D2 | ||
| GB 18030[3] | 164 225 | A4 E1 | 165 225 | A5 E1 | 132 49 154 54 | 84 31 9A 36 | ||
| EUC-KR[4] / UHC[5] | 170 225 | AA E1 | 171 225 | AB E1 | ||||
| Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[6] | 198 229 | C6 E5 | 199 121 | C7 79 | ||||
| Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[7] | 199 104 | C7 68 | 199 221 | C7 DD | ||||
