Ne (kana)

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, in hiragana, or in katakana, 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 [ne].

ne
hiragana
japanese hiragana ne
katakana
japanese katakana ne
transliterationne
hiragana origin
katakana origin
Man'yōgana禰 尼 泥 年 根 宿
spelling kanaねずみのネ (Nezumi no ne)
unicodeU+306D, U+30CD
braille⠏

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."

Form Rōmaji Hiragana Katakana
Normal n-
(な行 na-gyō)
ne
nei
nee
ねい, ねぃ
ねえ, ねぇ
ねー
ネイ, ネィ
ネエ, ネェ
ネー

Stroke order

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Stroke order in writing ね
 
Stroke order in writing ネ
 
Stroke order in writing ね
 
Stroke order in writing ネ

Other communicative representations

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  • Full Braille representation
ね / ネ in Japanese Braille
ね / ネ
ne
ねい / ネー
/nei
    
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In the manga "Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo" ね is Jelly Jiggler's least favorite kana.

References

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Character information
Preview
Unicode name HIRAGANA LETTER NE KATAKANA LETTER NE HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER NE CIRCLED KATAKANA NE
Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex dec hex
Unicode 12397 U+306D 12493 U+30CD 65416 U+FF88 13031 U+32E7
UTF-8 227 129 173 E3 81 AD 227 131 141 E3 83 8D 239 190 136 EF BE 88 227 139 167 E3 8B A7
Numeric character reference ね ね ネ ネ ネ ネ ㋧ ㋧
Shift JIS[1] 130 203 82 CB 131 108 83 6C 200 C8
EUC-JP[2] 164 205 A4 CD 165 205 A5 CD 142 200 8E C8
GB 18030[3] 164 205 A4 CD 165 205 A5 CD 132 49 153 54 84 31 99 36
EUC-KR[4] / UHC[5] 170 205 AA CD 171 205 AB CD
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[6] 198 209 C6 D1 199 101 C7 65
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[7] 199 84 C7 54 199 201 C7 C9
  1. ^ Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-03-08]. "Shift-JIS to Unicode".
  2. ^ Unicode Consortium; IBM. "EUC-JP-2007". International Components for Unicode.
  3. ^ Standardization Administration of China (SAC) (2005-11-18). GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set.
  4. ^ Unicode Consortium; IBM. "IBM-970". International Components for Unicode.
  5. ^ Steele, Shawn (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". Microsoft / Unicode Consortium.
  6. ^ Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-02-11]. "BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".
  7. ^ van Kesteren, Anne. "big5". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.