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JapaneseEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From cursive man'yลgana ๆฑ. Became obsolete for representing ye in the mid-Heian period when ye merged with e in spoken Japanese; later resurrected by linguists in the Edo period for representation of Old and Early Classical Japanese.
SyllableEdit
๐ (romaji ye, alternative romaji [hentaigana use only] e)
- (obsolete) The hentaigana syllable ye or e.
- (obsolete) The hiragana syllable ๐ (ye). Its equivalent in katakana is ใจ (ye) or ๐ก (ye).
Usage notesEdit
- ๐ and ๐ are used to represent the Japanese language before the mid-10th century, in which /e/ and /je/ were different phonemes.
/e/ /je/ hiragana ใ ๐ katakana ๐ ใจ [or ๐ก]
- In modern Japanese, old /e/ and /je/ both evolved into /e/, and are both written as ใ in hiragana and ใจ in katakana. Later reintroduction of the sound /je/ is written as ใใ in hiragana and ใคใง in katakana. Retrospective discussion of /je/ in Old and Early Classical Japanese (prior to the mid-Heian period merger with /e/) uses ๐ in hiragana and ๐ก in katakana (the latter invented for this purpose during the Meiji period to prevent confusion with the modern use of ใจ to represent /e/ rather than its ancient sound value of /je/).
- ๐ was used historically as a hentaigana character, as an alternative form of ใ (e).
Words containing Old Japanese /je/ of Sinitic origin
Words containing Old Japanese /je/ of Japonic origin
Etymology 2Edit
ParticleEdit
๐ (romaji ye)
- (obsolete) Identical in meaning to the particle ใธ, but used only after pronunciations of ใ, ๐, and ใ. (Can we verify(+) this sense?)
See alsoEdit
Old JapaneseEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Native readings.
NounEdit
๐ (ye)
Etymology 2Edit
SuffixEdit
๐ (-ye)