Se (kana)

se
hiragana katakana
transliteration	se
translit. with dakuten	ze
hiragana origin	世
katakana origin	世
spelling kana	世界のセ (Sekai no "se")

せ, in hiragana, or セ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. Both represent the sound [se], and when written with dakuten represent the sound [ze]. In the Ainu language, the katakana セ is sometimes written with a handakuten (which can be entered into a computer as either one character (セ゚) or two combined ones (セ゜)) to represent the [t͡se] sound, and is interchangeable with チェ.

Form	Rōmaji	Hiragana	Katakana
Normal s- (さ行 sa-gyō)	Se	せ	セ
	Sei See Sē	せい せえ せー	セイ セエ セー
Addition dakuten z- (ざ行 za-gyō)	Ze	ぜ	ゼ
	Zei Zee Zē	ぜい ぜえ ぜー	ゼイ ゼエ ゼー

Stroke order

Stroke order in writing せ

Stroke order in writing セ

Stroke order in writing せ

Stroke order in writing セ

Other representations

• Computer encodings

Character	せ		セ		ｾ		ぜ		ゼ
Unicode name	HIRAGANA LETTER SE		KATAKANA LETTER SE		HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER SE		HIRAGANA LETTER ZE		KATAKANA LETTER ZE
Encodings	decimal	hex	decimal	hex	decimal	hex	decimal	hex	decimal	hex
Unicode	12379	U+305B	12475	U+30BB	65406	U+FF7E	12380	U+305C	12476	U+30BC
UTF-8	227 129 155	E3 81 9B	227 130 187	E3 82 BB	239 189 190	EF BD BE	227 129 156	E3 81 9C	227 130 188	E3 82 BC
Numeric character reference	せ	せ	セ	セ	ｾ	ｾ	ぜ	ぜ	ゼ	ゼ
Shift JIS	130 185	82 B9	131 90	83 5A	190	BE	130 186	82 BA	131 91	83 5B

• Braille

せ / セ in Japanese Braille
せ / セ se	ぜ / ゼ ze	せい / セー sē/sei	ぜい / ゼー zē/zei

• Japanese semaphore