え in hiragana and エ in katakana are symbols of the Japanese kana used to record exactly one pestilence . In modern Japanese, it is in fourth place in the syllable alphabet , after う and before お .
Content
- 1 Origin
- 2 Phonetics and transcription
- 3 Writing
- 4 Codes of character codes
Origin
え came from the simplified spelling of kanji衣, and エ came from kanji 江.
In the early Old Japanese language, the sounds e and e were different and different kana signs were used for them:
| hiragana | katakana | |
|---|---|---|
| / e / | 𛀁 | エ |
| / e / | え | 𛀀 |
Over time, both of these sounds turned into e and the signs え and стали began to be used to record them.
Phonetics and transcription
え and エ correspond to the sound / e / in the International Phonetic Alphabet . In the Polivanov system, they correspond to the Cyrillic “ e ”, therefore, when transcribing Japanese words into Russian, え and エ are written as “e”.
え, in addition to directly pronouncing and writing as “e”, it can also lengthen the sound of the previous syllable ending in “e”, for example, ね え ( ne: is not it). When transcribing Japanese words into Russian, this is made out either with the help of a macron (ē), or a colon (e :).
Writing
Spelling order え | Spelling order エ |
The hiragana sign “え” is written using two strokes:
- written above is a short diagonal stroke going down and to the right;
- a bar is written below consisting of a horizontal line, a diagonal line going down and to the left, and a bar directed to the right, resembling a tilde (~).
The katakana sign “エ” is written using three strokes:
- written on top is a horizontal bar going from left to right;
- the second stroke begins in the middle of the first and goes down;
- bottom horizontal stroke parallel to the first and touching the second. This stroke is usually a little longer than the first.
Character Codes
- Unicode :
- え: U + 3048,
- エ: U + 30A8.
| Hiragana : Godzuon | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ん n | ﾞ | わ wa | ら pa | や i | ま ma | は ha | な on | た that | さ sa | か ka | あ a |
| っ | ゝ | ゐ vi | り ri | み mi | ひ hee | に neither | ち ty | し si | き ki | い and | |
| ヴ in | ゟ | る ru | ゆ y | む mu | ふ fu | ぬ well | つ tsu | す soo | く ku | う y | |
| ヶ | ゑ ve | れ re | e | め me | へ he | ね ne | て te | せ se | け ke | え e | |
| ー | を o | ろ ro | よ ё | も mo | ほ ho | の but | と then | そ with | こ to | お o | |
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