Ke (hiragana: け, katakana: ケ) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. Both represent . The shape of these kana come from the kanji 計 and 介, respectively.
A dakuten may be added to this character; this changes it to げ in hiragana, ゲ in katakana, ge in Hepburn romanization and the pronunciation shifts to in initial positions and varying between and in the middle of words.
A handakuten (゜) does not occur with ke in normal Japanese text, but it may be used by linguists to indicate a nasal pronunciation .
FormRōmajiHiraganaKatakanaNormal k-(か行 ka-gyō)keけケkeikeekēけい, けぃけえ, けぇけーケイ, ケィケエ, ケェケーAddition dakuten g-(が行 ga-gyō)geげゲgeigeegēげい, げぃげえ, げぇげーゲイ, ゲィゲエ, ゲェゲー
Stroke order
Other communicative representations
Braille forms け / ケ in Japanese Braille け / ケ ke げ / ゲ ge けい / ケー kē/kei げい / ゲー gē/gei
Computer encodings
References
See also
Small ke (ヶ)