Se (kana)
Character of the Japanese writing system
Se (hiragana: せ, katakana: セ) 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).
01Other communicative representations
| Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code |
| 世界のセ Sekai no "Se" |
▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄ ⓘ |
| Japanese Navy Signal Flag | Japanese semaphore | Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling) | Braille dots-12456 Japanese Braille |
- 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 |
| 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 | 130 185 | 82 B9 | 131 90 | 83 5A | 190 | BE | ||
| EUC-JP | 164 187 | A4 BB | 165 187 | A5 BB | 142 190 | 8E BE | ||
| GB 18030 | 164 187 | A4 BB | 165 187 | A5 BB | 132 49 152 54 | 84 31 98 36 | ||
| EUC-KR / UHC | 170 187 | AA BB | 171 187 | AB BB | ||||
| Big5 (non-ETEN kana) | 198 191 | C6 BF | 199 83 | C7 53 | ||||
| Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS) | 199 66 | C7 42 | 199 183 | C7 B7 | ||||
| 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 | |||||
| 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) | 130 186 | 82 BA | 131 91 | 83 5B | ||||||
| Shift JIS-2004 | 130 186 | 82 BA | 131 91 | 83 5B | 131 156 | 83 9C | ||||
| EUC-JP (plain) | 164 188 | A4 BC | 165 188 | A5 BC | ||||||
| EUC-JIS-2004 | 164 188 | A4 BC | 165 188 | A5 BC | 165 252 | A5 FC | ||||
| GB 18030 | 164 188 | A4 BC | 165 188 | A5 BC | ||||||
| EUC-KR / UHC | 170 188 | AA BC | 171 188 | AB BC | ||||||
| Big5 (non-ETEN kana) | 198 192 | C6 C0 | 199 84 | C7 54 | ||||||
| Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS) | 199 67 | C7 43 | 199 184 | C7 B8 | ||||||
Sources and credits
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Images, from Wikimedia Commons:
- Hiragana せ stroke order animation.gif by Sirgazil, CC0
- Katakana セ stroke order animation.gif by Sirgazil, CC0
- せ-bw.png by No machine-readable author provided. Ignis assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0
- セ-bw.png by Made by me, M4RC0, using Photoshop. We are making this kind of picture following the protocol of the section : Bitmap Image (PNG), CC BY-SA 2.0
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