Ye (kana)

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ye
hiragana katakana[1] alternate katakana[2]
transliteration	e, ye
hiragana origin	江
katakana origin	江
another katakana origin	延
Man'yōgana	延 曳 睿 叡 盈 要 縁 裔 兄 柄 枝 吉 江 遥 衣
unicode	U+1B001

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Ye (hiragana: 𛀁, katakana: エ, sometimes distinguished as 𛄡) is a Japanese mora or a kana used to write it, no longer in standard use.^[3] 生𛀁す (payesu) is an old Japanese word, which is assumed to be the intransitive form of 生ゆ (payu; to sprout.) It is one of the only words that uses the "𛀁" kana.