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Derived in the Heian period from writing the man'yōgana kanji 恵 in the cursive sōsho style.
(rare)
- (archaic) The hiragana syllable ゑ (e). Its equivalent in katakana is ヱ (e). It is the forty-sixth syllable in the gojūon order; its position is わ行え段 (wa-gyō e-dan, “row wa, section e”).
| For pronunciation and definitions of ゑ – see the following entries. |
| (This term, ゑ (we), is a historical kana spelling of the above terms.) For a list of all kanji read as ゑ, see Category:Japanese kanji read as ゑ.) |
This is now a rarely used hiragana. It was replaced by え during the Japanese script reform.