Te (kana)

て, in hiragana, or テ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. Both represent [te].^[1]

te
hiragana katakana
transliteration	te
translit. with dakuten	de
hiragana origin	天
katakana origin	天
Man'yōgana	堤 天 帝 底 手 代 直
Voiced Man'yōgana	代 田 泥 庭 伝 殿 而 涅 提 弟
spelling kana	手紙のテ (Tegami no "te")
unicode	U+3066, U+30C6
braille

Form	Rōmaji	Hiragana	Katakana
Normal t- (た行 ta-gyō)	te	て	テ
	tei tee tē	てい てえ, てぇ てー	テイ テエ, テェ テー
Addition dakuten d- (だ行 da-gyō)	de	で	デ
	dei dee dē	でい でえ, でぇ でー	デイ デエ, デェ デー

Other additional forms
Form A (ty-) Romaji Hiragana Katakana tya てゃ テャ ti, tyi てぃ ティ tyu てゅ テュ tye てぃぇ ティェ tyo てょ テョ	Form B (dy-) Romaji Hiragana Katakana dya でゃ デャ di, dyi でぃ ディ dyu でゅ デュ dye でぃぇ ディェ dyo でょ デョ

Stroke order

Stroke order in writing て

Stroke order in writing テ

 

Stroke order in writing て

 

Stroke order in writing テ

Other communicative representations

Japanese radiotelephony alphabet	Wabun code
手紙のテ Tegami no "Te"	▄ ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄

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

• Computer encodings

Character information

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^[2]	130 196	82 C4	131 101	83 65	195	C3	130 197	82 C5	131 102	83 66
EUC-JP^[3]	164 198	A4 C6	165 198	A5 C6	142 195	8E C3	164 199	A4 C7	165 199	A5 C7
GB 18030^[4]	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^[5] / UHC^[6]	170 198	AA C6	171 198	AB C6			170 199	AA C7	171 199	AB C7
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)^[7]	198 202	C6 CA	199 94	C7 5E			198 203	C6 CB	199 95	C7 5F
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)^[8]	199 77	C7 4D	199 194	C7 C2			199 78	C7 4E	199 195	C7 C3

Character information

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)^[9]			237 214	ED D6
GB 18030^[4]	129 57 211 52	81 39 D3 34	148 57 152 49	94 39 98 31

See also

 

Look up て, で, テ, or デ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

• Te form of Japanese verb

References

1. "Tae Kim's Guide to Learning Japanese".
2. Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-03-08]. "Shift-JIS to Unicode".
3. Unicode Consortium; IBM. "EUC-JP-2007". International Components for Unicode.
4. Standardization Administration of China (SAC) (2005-11-18). GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set.
5. Unicode Consortium; IBM. "IBM-970". International Components for Unicode.
6. Steele, Shawn (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". Microsoft / Unicode Consortium.
7. Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-02-11]. "BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".
8. van Kesteren, Anne. "big5". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.
9. Scherer, Markus (2008). "ARIB Broadcast Symbols Unicode conversion mapping table using ICU's .ucm file format and representing ARIB codes in the Shift-JIS encoding scheme". Google.