Ye (kana)

Ye (hiragana: , katakana: エ, sometimes also written as 𛄡) is a Japanese mora or a kana used to write it, no longer in standard use.Iannacone, Jake (2020). "Reply to The Origin of Hiragana /wu/ 平仮名のわ行うの字源に対する新たな発見"

History It is presumed that would have represented . In the 10th century, e and ye progressively merged into ye, and then during the Edo period the pronunciation changed from /je/ to /e/.

However, during the Meiji period, linguists almost unanimously agreed on the kana for yi, ye, and wu. and are thought to have never occurred as morae in Japanese, and was merged with and .

Characters Nara period–Heian period Japanese people separated e and ye in Man'yōgana, early Hiragana and early Katakana.

+ e ye Man'yōgana『世界の文字の図典普及版』2009年, 世界の文字研究会, 吉川弘文館愛,哀,埃,衣,依,榎,荏,得,"可愛" 延,曳,睿,叡,盈,要,縁,裔,兄,柄,枝,吉,江 Hiragana平仮名(大辞林特別ページ)石塚秀雄「『土佐日記』における仮名表記の特色:「ア行のエ」「ヤ行のエ」に注目して」え etc. etc. Katakana片仮名(大辞林特別ページ) etc. エ etc.

After that, e and ye merged into ye in the 10th century, before eventually evolving back to e.Frellesvig, Bjarke (1995). A Case Study in Diachronic Phonology: The Japanese Onbin Sound Changes. Aarhus University Press. p. 73

Edo period–Meiji period In the Edo period and the Meiji period, some Japanese linguists tried to separate kana e and kana ye again. The shapes of characters differed with each linguist. 𛀁 and 𛄡 were just two of many shapes.

They were phonetic symbols to fill in the blanks of the gojūon table, but Japanese people did not separate them in normal writing.

e ye Traditional kanaえ綴字篇 (Hiragana) (A variant form of え. Hiragana.) エ (Katakana)え (Hiragana) 𛀁 (A variant form of え. Hiragana.) 古言衣延辨證補 (A variant form of え. Hiragana.) 音韻啓蒙 : 2巻. 上巻 (A variant form of え. Hiragana.) (A variant form of え. Hiragana.) エ (Katakana) Constructed kana (A part of 衣. Katakana.) (A part of 衣. Katakana.) (A part of 衣. Katakana.) (A part of 衣. Katakana.) (A part of 衣. Katakana.)え゙小学日本文典入門. 巻之1 (え with dots. Hiragana.) エ゙ (エ with dots. Katakana.) 日本文典大綱 (A part of 衣. Katakana.) 仮名遣の栞日本新文典日本文法問答. 初編 (A part of 衣. Katakana.) 新式漢文捷径初歩実用日本語法 : 日清対訳 (A part of 衣. Katakana.) 𛄡小学教師心得・小学入門英和単語図解. 前篇 (A part of 延. Katakana.) 辞礎 (A part of 兄. Katakana.) (A part of 延. Katakana.)

These suggestions were not accepted.

Unicode The hiragana version is encoded as HIRAGANA LETTER ARCHAIC YE (with the normative alias of HENTAIGANA LETTER E-1) in the position U+1B001. The katakana version is encoded as KATAKANA LETTER ARCHAIC YE, in the position of U+1B121. A small form, used in Shōwa-period linguistic works to transcribe Marshallese, was encoded in Unicode 18.0 (September 2026) as KATAKANA LETTER SMALL ARCHAIC YE at U+1B168 in the Small Kana Extension block.

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