Talk:We (kana)

Removed statement

Even in the present day, when え (e) follows a mora containing the vowel "u", it is sometimes pronounced as "we" (such as 上 (ue) being pronounced as "uwe").

This statement needs to be sourced, if it isn't completely bogus. I hear no, nor have I ever seen any proper documentation of, modern-day rounding of the /u/ sound where it was historically written ゑ, and as it is this statement reeks of original research, presumably be an intermediate student of Japanese. In what phonetic system is "uwe" an understandable description of pronunciation? Please provide a reference. 222.159.203.158 04:32, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Can we loose all the anime dork stuf on here. It's embarising and lame. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.45.197.174 (talk) 14:12, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Article structure

This is really an article about two different characters (one katakana character and one hiragana character), and they have different code points in Unicode. Shouldn't this be split into two articles? --LarsMarius 16:27, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Lars --

Katakana and hiragana are different elements of the same phonetic sound in Japanese, and as such might be more productively thought of as different "cases" of the same "letter", if you will. If you propose that there be separate articles for upper-case U and lower-case u, for instance, then by all means we should propose to do the same here and split this in two. Rather that U and u do not have separate pages, however, I would strongly suggest that this article be kept single. -- Erik Anderson, Japanese-English translator, 20:28, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

combinations

The combination of a W-column kana letter with "ゑ゙" in hiragana was introduced to represent [ve] in the 19th and 20th centuries^{[citation needed]}.

I do not understand this sentence (today). Is "ゑ゙" itself not a W-column kana? Can it combine with any W-column kana to make /ve/? —Tamfang (talk) 00:37, 4 September 2023 (UTC)