Se (kana)

se
hiragana
japanese hiragana se		 katakana
japanese katakana se
transliterationse
translit. with dakutenze
hiragana origin世
katakana origin世
Man'yōgana世 西 斉 勢 施 背 脊 迫 瀬
Voiced Man'yōgana是 湍
spelling kana世界のセ
(Sekai no "se")
kana gojūon
warayamahanatasakaa
wiri(yi)mihinichishikii
(wu)ruyumufunutsusukuu
were(ye)mehenetesekee
woroyomohonotosokoo
n
Kana modifiers and marks
Multi-moraic kana

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 ツェ (tse).

Form Rōmaji Hiragana Katakana
Normal s-
(さ行 sa-gyō) 		se せ セ
sei
see
sē 		せい, せぃ
せえ, せぇ
せー 		セイ, セィ
セエ, セェ
セー
Addition dakuten z-
(ざ行 za-gyō) 		ze ぜ ゼ
zei
zee
zē 		ぜい, ぜぃ
ぜえ, ぜぇ
ぜー 		ゼイ, ゼィ
ゼエ, ゼェ
ゼー

Stroke order

Stroke order in writing せ
Stroke order in writing せ
Stroke order in writing セ
Stroke order in writing セ
Stroke order in writing せ
Stroke order in writing セ

Other communicative representations

  • Full Braille representation
せ / セ in Japanese Braille
せ / セ
se		 ぜ / ゼ
ze		 せい / セー
sē/sei		 ぜい / ゼー
zē/zei
⠻ (braille pattern dots-12456) ⠐ (braille pattern dots-5)⠻ (braille pattern dots-12456) ⠻ (braille pattern dots-12456)⠒ (braille pattern dots-25) ⠐ (braille pattern dots-5)⠻ (braille pattern dots-12456)⠒ (braille pattern dots-25)
Character information
Preview せ セ ｾ ㋝
Unicode name HIRAGANA LETTER SE KATAKANA LETTER SE HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER SE CIRCLED KATAKANA SE
Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex dec hex
Unicode 12379 U+305B 12475 U+30BB 65406 U+FF7E 13021 U+32DD
UTF-8 227 129 155 E3 81 9B 227 130 187 E3 82 BB 239 189 190 EF BD BE 227 139 157 E3 8B 9D
Numeric character reference せ せ セ セ ｾ ｾ ㋝ ㋝
Shift JIS[1] 130 185 82 B9 131 90 83 5A 190 BE
EUC-JP[2] 164 187 A4 BB 165 187 A5 BB 142 190 8E BE
GB 18030[3] 164 187 A4 BB 165 187 A5 BB 132 49 152 54 84 31 98 36
EUC-KR[4] / UHC[5] 170 187 AA BB 171 187 AB BB
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[6] 198 191 C6 BF 199 83 C7 53
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[7] 199 66 C7 42 199 183 C7 B7
Character information
Preview 𛄶 𛅗 ぜ ゼ セ゚
Unicode name HIRAGANA LETTER SMALL SE KATAKANA LETTER SMALL SE HIRAGANA LETTER ZE KATAKANA LETTER ZE KATAKANA LETTER AINU CE[8]
Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex dec hex dec hex
Unicode 110902 U+1B136 110935 U+1B157 12380 U+305C 12476 U+30BC 12475 12442 U+30BB+309A
UTF-8 240 155 132 182 F0 9B 84 B6 240 155 133 151 F0 9B 85 97 227 129 156 E3 81 9C 227 130 188 E3 82 BC 227 130 187 227 130 154 E3 82 BB E3 82 9A
UTF-16 55340 56630 D82C DD36 55340 56663 D82C DD57 12380 305C 12476 30BC 12475 12442 30BB 309A
Numeric character reference 𛄶 𛄶 𛅗 𛅗 ぜ ぜ ゼ ゼ セ゚ セ゚
Shift JIS (plain)[1] 130 186 82 BA 131 91 83 5B
Shift JIS-2004[9] 130 186 82 BA 131 91 83 5B 131 156 83 9C
EUC-JP (plain)[2] 164 188 A4 BC 165 188 A5 BC
EUC-JIS-2004[10] 164 188 A4 BC 165 188 A5 BC 165 252 A5 FC
GB 18030[3] 164 188 A4 BC 165 188 A5 BC
EUC-KR[4] / UHC[5] 170 188 AA BC 171 188 AB BC
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[6] 198 192 C6 C0 199 84 C7 54
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[7] 199 67 C7 43 199 184 C7 B8
Look up せ, ぜ, セ, or ゼ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

References

  1. ^ a b Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-03-08]. "Shift-JIS to Unicode".
  2. ^ a b Unicode Consortium; IBM. "EUC-JP-2007". International Components for Unicode.
  3. ^ a b Standardization Administration of China (SAC) (2005-11-18). GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set.
  4. ^ a b Unicode Consortium; IBM. "IBM-970". International Components for Unicode.
  5. ^ a b Steele, Shawn (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". Microsoft / Unicode Consortium.
  6. ^ a b Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-02-11]. "BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".
  7. ^ a b van Kesteren, Anne. "big5". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.
  8. ^ Unicode Consortium. "Unicode Named Character Sequences". Unicode Character Database.
  9. ^ Project X0213 (2009-05-03). "Shift_JIS-2004 (JIS X 0213:2004 Appendix 1) vs Unicode mapping table".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  10. ^ Project X0213 (2009-05-03). "EUC-JIS-2004 (JIS X 0213:2004 Appendix 3) vs Unicode mapping table".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)