Re (kana)
Character of the Japanese writing system
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Re (hiragana: れ, katakana: レ) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. The hiragana is written in two strokes, while katakana in one. Both represent the sound [ɾe] ⓘ. The shapes of these kana have origins in the character 礼. The Ainu language uses a small katakana ㇾ to represent a final r sound after an e sound (エㇾ er). The combination of an R-column kana letter with handakuten ゜- れ゚ in hiragana, and レ゚ in katakana was introduced to represent [le] in the early 20th century.[according to whom?]
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| Transliteration | re | ||
| Hiragana origin | 礼 | ||
| Katakana origin | 礼 | ||
| Man'yōgana | 礼 列 例 烈 連 | ||
| Spelling kana | れんげのレ Renge no "re" | ||
| Unicode | U+308C, U+30EC | ||
| Braille |  | ||
Stroke order
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Other communicative representations
| Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code |
| れんげのレ Renge no "Re" |
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| Japanese Navy Signal Flag | Japanese semaphore | Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling) | Braille dots-1245 Japanese Braille |
- Full Braille representation
| れ / レ in Japanese Braille | |
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| れ / レ re | れい / レー rē/rei |
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| Preview | れ | レ | ﾚ | ㇾ | ㋹ | |||||
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| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER RE | KATAKANA LETTER RE | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER RE | KATAKANA LETTER SMALL RE | CIRCLED KATAKANA RE | |||||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 12428 | U+308C | 12524 | U+30EC | 65434 | U+FF9A | 12798 | U+31FE | 13049 | U+32F9 |
| UTF-8 | 227 130 140 | E3 82 8C | 227 131 172 | E3 83 AC | 239 190 154 | EF BE 9A | 227 135 190 | E3 87 BE | 227 139 185 | E3 8B B9 |
| Numeric character reference | れ | れ | レ | レ | ﾚ | ﾚ | ㇾ | ㇾ | ㋹ | ㋹ |
| Shift JIS (plain)[1] | 130 234 | 82 EA | 131 140 | 83 8C | 218 | DA | ||||
| Shift JIS-2004[2] | 130 234 | 82 EA | 131 140 | 83 8C | 218 | DA | 131 251 | 83 FB | ||
| EUC-JP (plain)[3] | 164 236 | A4 EC | 165 236 | A5 EC | 142 218 | 8E DA | ||||
| EUC-JIS-2004[4] | 164 236 | A4 EC | 165 236 | A5 EC | 142 218 | 8E DA | 166 253 | A6 FD | ||
| GB 18030[5] | 164 236 | A4 EC | 165 236 | A5 EC | 132 49 155 52 | 84 31 9B 34 | 129 57 189 56 | 81 39 BD 38 | ||
| EUC-KR[6] / UHC[7] | 170 236 | AA EC | 171 236 | AB EC | ||||||
| Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[8] | 198 240 | C6 F0 | 199 166 | C7 A6 | ||||||
| Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[9] | 199 115 | C7 73 | 199 232 | C7 E8 | ||||||
