Ne (kana)
Character of the Japanese writing system
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Ne (hiragana: ね, katakana: ネ) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. The hiragana is made in two strokes, while the katakana is made in four. Both represent [ne].
| ne | |||
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| Transliteration | ne | ||
| Hiragana origin | 祢 | ||
| Katakana origin | 祢 | ||
| Man'yōgana | 禰 尼 泥 年 根 宿 | ||
| Spelling kana | ねずみのネ (Nezumi no ne) | ||
| Unicode | U+306D, U+30CD | ||
| Braille |  | ||
As a particle, it is used at the end of a sentence, equivalent to an English, "right?" or "isn't it?" It is also used as slang in Japan to get someone's attention, the English equivalent being "hey" or "hey, you."
Stroke order
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Other communicative representations
| Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code |
| ねずみのネ Nezumi no "Ne" |
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| Japanese Navy Signal Flag | Japanese semaphore | Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling) | Braille dots-1234 Japanese Braille |
Braille forms
| ね / ネ in Japanese Braille | |
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| ね / ネ ne | ねい / ネー nē/nei |
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Computer encodings
| Preview | ね | ネ | ﾈ | ㋧ | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER NE | KATAKANA LETTER NE | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER NE | CIRCLED KATAKANA NE | ||||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 12397 | U+306D | 12493 | U+30CD | 65416 | U+FF88 | 13031 | U+32E7 |
| UTF-8 | 227 129 173 | E3 81 AD | 227 131 141 | E3 83 8D | 239 190 136 | EF BE 88 | 227 139 167 | E3 8B A7 |
| Numeric character reference | ね | ね | ネ | ネ | ﾈ | ﾈ | ㋧ | ㋧ |
| Shift JIS[1] | 130 203 | 82 CB | 131 108 | 83 6C | 200 | C8 | ||
| EUC-JP[2] | 164 205 | A4 CD | 165 205 | A5 CD | 142 200 | 8E C8 | ||
| GB 18030[3] | 164 205 | A4 CD | 165 205 | A5 CD | 132 49 153 54 | 84 31 99 36 | ||
| EUC-KR[4] / UHC[5] | 170 205 | AA CD | 171 205 | AB CD | ||||
| Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[6] | 198 209 | C6 D1 | 199 101 | C7 65 | ||||
| Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[7] | 199 84 | C7 54 | 199 201 | C7 C9 | ||||
Archaic forms
A second katakana ne, derived from the kanji 子, was used alongside ネ in Meiji-period textbooks and dictionaries, with attestations into the 1930s; it survives in personal names such as Kane Tanaka's (田中カ子), where the kanji 子 has stood in for it. Unicode 18.0 (September 2026) encoded it as U+1B127 KATAKANA LETTER ALTERNATE NE.[8][9]
| Preview | | |
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| Unicode name | KATAKANA LETTER ALTERNATE NE | |
| Encodings | decimal | hex |
| Unicode | 110887 | U+1B127 |
| UTF-8 | 240 155 132 167 | F0 9B 84 A7 |
| UTF-16 | 55340 56615 | D82C DD27 |
| Numeric character reference | 𛄧 | 𛄧 |
In popular culture
In the manga "Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo" ね is Jelly Jiggler's least favorite kana.
