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 .
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."
FormRōmajiHiraganaKatakanaNormal n-(な行 na-gyō)neねネneineenēねい, ねぃねえ, ねぇねーネイ, ネィネエ, ネェネー
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Other communicative representations
Braille forms ね / ネ in Japanese Braille ね / ネ ne ねい / ネー nē/nei
Computer encodings
Archaic forms A second katakana ne, derived from the kanji , was used alongside ネ in Meiji-period textbooks and dictionaries, with attestations into the 1930s; it survives in personal names such as Kane Tanaka's (田中カ子), where the kanji 子 has stood in for it. Unicode 18.0 (September 2026) encoded it as U+1B127 KATAKANA LETTER ALTERNATE NE.
In popular culture
In the manga "Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo" ね is Jelly Jiggler's least favorite kana.
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