Te (kana)
Character of the Japanese writing system
Te (hiragana: て, katakana: テ) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. Both represent [te].
01Other communicative representations
| Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code |
| テレビのテ Terebi no "Te" |
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| Japanese Navy Signal Flag | Japanese semaphore | Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling) | Braille dots-12345 Japanese Braille |
- Full Braille representation
| て / テ in Japanese Braille | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| て / テ te | で / デ de | てい / テー tē/tei | でい / デー dē/dei |
| Preview | て | テ | テ | で | デ | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER TE | KATAKANA LETTER TE | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER TE | HIRAGANA LETTER DE | KATAKANA LETTER DE | |||||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 12390 | U+3066 | 12486 | U+30C6 | 65411 | U+FF83 | 12391 | U+3067 | 12487 | U+30C7 |
| UTF-8 | 227 129 166 | E3 81 A6 | 227 131 134 | E3 83 86 | 239 190 131 | EF BE 83 | 227 129 167 | E3 81 A7 | 227 131 135 | E3 83 87 |
| Numeric character reference | て | て | テ | テ | テ | テ | で | で | デ | デ |
| Shift JIS | 130 196 | 82 C4 | 131 101 | 83 65 | 195 | C3 | 130 197 | 82 C5 | 131 102 | 83 66 |
| EUC-JP | 164 198 | A4 C6 | 165 198 | A5 C6 | 142 195 | 8E C3 | 164 199 | A4 C7 | 165 199 | A5 C7 |
| GB 18030 | 164 198 | A4 C6 | 165 198 | A5 C6 | 132 49 153 49 | 84 31 99 31 | 164 199 | A4 C7 | 165 199 | A5 C7 |
| EUC-KR / UHC | 170 198 | AA C6 | 171 198 | AB C6 | 170 199 | AA C7 | 171 199 | AB C7 | ||
| Big5 (non-ETEN kana) | 198 202 | C6 CA | 199 94 | C7 5E | 198 203 | C6 CB | 199 95 | C7 5F | ||
| Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS) | 199 77 | C7 4D | 199 194 | C7 C2 | 199 78 | C7 4E | 199 195 | C7 C3 | ||
| Preview | ㋢ | 🈓 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | CIRCLED KATAKANA TE | SQUARED KATAKANA DE | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 13026 | U+32E2 | 127507 | U+1F213 |
| UTF-8 | 227 139 162 | E3 8B A2 | 240 159 136 147 | F0 9F 88 93 |
| UTF-16 | 13026 | 32E2 | 55356 56851 | D83C DE13 |
| Numeric character reference | ㋢ | ㋢ | 🈓 | 🈓 |
| Shift JIS (ARIB) | 237 214 | ED D6 | ||
| GB 18030 | 129 57 211 52 | 81 39 D3 34 | 148 57 152 49 | 94 39 98 31 |




Sources and credits
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Images, from Wikimedia Commons:
- Hiragana て stroke order animation.gif by Sirgazil, CC0
- Katakana テ stroke order animation.gif by Sirgazil, CC0
- て-bw.png by No machine-readable author provided. D.328 assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0
- テ-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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