め

Character	め
Unicode name	HIRAGANA LETTER ME
Codepoint	U+3081

See also ぬ

Japanese

Stroke order

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: [me̞]

Syllable

め (Hepburn romanization me)

1. The hiragana syllable め (me), whose equivalent in katakana is メ (me). It is the thirty-fourth syllable of the gojūon order, and its position in gojūon tables is ま行え段 (MA-gyō, E-dan; “row MA, section E”).

Related terms

• For a list of words starting with め (me) see: Special:Allpages/め

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

め (romaji me)

1. 目: eye

   目がかゆいです。

   めがかゆいです。

   Me ga kayui desu.

   My eyes feel itchy.

2. 芽: bud, sprout

Suffix

め (kanji 目, romaji me)

1. -st, -nd, -rd, -th (marks ordinals)
   • アメリカは二回めです。

     アメリカはにかいめです。

     Amerika wa nikai me desu.

     This is my second time to America.