Re (kana)
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{{Infobox kana
|Hiragana image =Japanese_Hiragana_kyokashotai_RE.svg
|Katakana image = Japanese_Katakana_kyokashotai_RE.svg
|Transliteration = re
|Hiragana Manyogana = 礼
|Katakana Manyogana = 礼
|Other Manyogana = 礼 列 例 烈 連
|Braille = File:Japanese Re Braille.svg
|Unicode = U+308C, U+30EC
|flag1=7
|Footnotes =
|Spelling= れんげのレ Renge no "re"
}}
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れ, in hiragana, or レ in katakana, 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 {{IPA|ja|ɾe||Ja-Re.oga}}. 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|date=May 2022}}
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!Form |
| rowspan="2"|Normal r- (ら行 ra-gyō) |re |れ |レ |
|---|
| rei ree rē |れい, れぃ |レイ, レィ |
Stroke order
Other communicative representations
{{Letter reps|lang=Japanese|radio={{lang|ja|れんげのレ}}|radio_trans=Renge no "Re"|morse=--- |morse_sound=O morse code.ogg|flag_img=ICS Oscar.svg|sign_img=|sem1=Japanese Semaphore Basic Stroke 7.svg|braille_img=Japanese Re Braille.svg|braille=⠛}}
- Full Braille representation
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| colspan=2| れ / レ in Japanese Braille | |
|---|---|
| れ / レ re | れい / レー rē/rei |
| {{Braille cell|type=kana|size=30px|れ}} | {{Braille cell|type=kana|size=30px|れ|25}} |
{{charmap
|308C|name1=Hiragana Letter Re
|30EC|name2=Katakana Letter Re
|FF9A|name3=Halfwidth Katakana Letter Re
|31FE|name4=Katakana Letter Small Re
|32F9|name5=Circled Katakana Re
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|map5=GB 18030{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/GB18030-2005|title=GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set|last=Standardization Administration of China (SAC)|date=2005-11-18}}|map5char1=A4 EC|map5char2=A5 EC|map5char3=84 31 9B 34|map5char4=81 39 BD 38
|map6=EUC-KR{{cite web |url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/unicode-org/icu/master/icu4c/source/data/mappings/ibm-970_P110_P110-2006_U2.ucm |title=IBM-970 |author1=Unicode Consortium |author-link1=Unicode Consortium |author2=IBM |author-link2=IBM |work=International Components for Unicode}} / UHC{{cite web |url=https://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/CP949.TXT |title=cp949 to Unicode table |last=Steele |first=Shawn |publisher=Microsoft / Unicode Consortium |date=2000}}|map6char1=AA EC|map6char2=AB EC
|map7=Big5 (non-ETEN kana){{cite web |url=https://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/OBSOLETE/EASTASIA/OTHER/BIG5.TXT |title=BIG5 to Unicode table (complete) |author=Unicode Consortium |author-link=Unicode Consortium |date=2015-12-02 |orig-year=1994-02-11}}|map7char1=C6 F0|map7char2=C7 A6
|map8=Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS){{cite web |url=https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/big5.html |title=big5 |work=Encoding Standard |publisher=WHATWG |last=van Kesteren |first=Anne |author-link=Anne van Kesteren}}|map8char1=C7 73|map8char2=C7 E8
}}
See also
{{Wiktionary|れ|レ}}