て

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Character	て
Unicode name	HIRAGANA LETTER TE
Codepoint	U+3066

See also Շ, ꞇ, ح, ج, and خ

Japanese

Stroke order

Etymology

Derived in the Heian period from writing the man'yōgana kanji 天 in the cursive sōsho style.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [te̞]

Syllable

て (Hepburn romanization te)

1. The hiragana syllable て (te), whose equivalent in katakana is テ (te). It is the nineteenth syllable of the gojūon order, and its position in gojūon tables is た行え段 (TA-gyō, E-dan; “row TA, section E”).

Related terms

• For a list of words starting with て (te) see: Special:Allpages/て

Derived terms

• で (de)

See also

• (Hiragana) 平仮名; あぁ, いぃ, うぅゔ, えぇ, おぉ, かゕが, きぎ, くぐ, けゖげ, こご, さざ, しじ, すず, せぜ, そぞ, ただ, ちぢ, つっづ, てで, とど, な, に, ぬ, ね, の, はばぱ, ひびぴ, ふぶぷ, へべぺ, ほぼぽ, ま, み, む, め, も, やゃ, ゆゅ, よょ, ら, り, る, れ, ろ, わゎ, ゐ, ゑ, を, ん, ー, ゝ, ゞ, ゟ

Noun

て (romaji te)

1. 手: hand

Particle

て (romaji te)

1. Request maker sentence-final particle.