Ke (kana)

ke
hiragana katakana
transliteration	ke
translit. with dakuten	ge
hiragana origin	計
katakana origin	介
spelling kana	景色のケ (Keshiki no "ke")

け, in hiragana, or ケ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. Both represent [ke]. The shape of these kana come from the kanji 計 and 介, respectively.

A dakuten may be added to this character; this changes it to げ in hiragana, ゲ in katakana, ge in Hepburn romanization, and the pronunciation shifts to [ɡe] in initial positions, and varying between [ŋe] and [ɣe] in the middle of words.

A handakuten (゜) does not occur with ke in normal Japanese text, but it may be used by linguists to indicate a nasal pronunciation [ŋe].

Form	Rōmaji	Hiragana	Katakana
Normal k- (か行 ka-gyō)	ke	け	ケ
	kei kee kē	けい, けぃ けえ, けぇ けー	ケイ, ケィ ケエ, ケェ ケー
Addition dakuten g- (が行 ga-gyō)	ge	げ	ゲ
	gei gee gē	げい, げぃ げえ, げぇ げー	ゲイ, ゲィ ゲエ, ゲェ ゲー

Stroke order

Stroke order in writing け

Stroke order in writing ケ

Stroke order in writing け

Stroke order in writing ケ

Other communicative representations

• Computer encodings

Character	け		ケ		ｹ		ヶ		げ		ゲ
Unicode name	HIRAGANA LETTER KE		KATAKANA LETTER KE		HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER KE		KATAKANA LETTER SMALL KE		HIRAGANA LETTER GE		KATAKANA LETTER GE
Encodings	decimal	hex	decimal	hex	decimal	hex	decimal	hex	decimal	hex	decimal	hex
Unicode	12369	U+3051	12465	U+30B1	65401	U+FF79	12534	U+30F6	12370	U+3052	12466	U+30B2
UTF-8	227 129 145	E3 81 91	227 130 177	E3 82 B1	239 189 185	EF BD B9	227 131 182	E3 83 B6	227 129 146	E3 81 92	227 130 178	E3 82 B2
Numeric character reference	け	け	ケ	ケ	ｹ	ｹ	ヶ	ヶ	げ	げ	ゲ	ゲ
Shift JIS	130 175	82 AF	131 80	83 50	185	B9	131 149	83 95	130 176	82 B0	131 81	83 51

• Braille

け / ケ in Japanese Braille
け / ケ ke	げ / ゲ ge	けい / ケー kē/kei	げい / ゲー gē/gei

• Japanese semaphore

The Wabun code for け or ケ is －・－－.

See also

• Small ke (ヶ)