Ne (kana)
Character of the Japanese writing system
Ne (hiragana: ね, katakana: ネ) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. The hiragana is made in two strokes, while the katakana is made in four. Both represent [ne].
As a particle, it is used at the end of a sentence, equivalent to an English, "right?" or "isn't it?" It is also used as slang in Japan to get someone's attention, the English equivalent being "hey" or "hey, you."
01Other communicative representations
| Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code |
| ねずみのネ Nezumi no "Ne" |
▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ⓘ |
| Japanese Navy Signal Flag | Japanese semaphore | Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling) | Braille dots-1234 Japanese Braille |
- Full Braille representation
| ね / ネ in Japanese Braille | |
|---|---|
| ね / ネ ne | ねい / ネー nē/nei |
02In popular culture
In the manga "Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo" ね is Jelly Jiggler's least favorite kana.
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- Hiragana ね stroke order animation.gif by Sirgazil, CC0
- Katakana ネ stroke order animation.gif by Sirgazil, CC0
- ね-bw.png by No machine-readable author provided. D.328 assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0
- ネ-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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