Me (hiragana: め, katakana: メ) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. Both versions of the kana are written in two strokes and represent [me].

FormRōmajiHiraganaKatakana
Normal m- (ま行 ma-gyō)meめメ
mei mee mēめい, めぃ めえ, めぇ めーメイ, メィ メエ, メェ メー

Stroke order

Stroke order in writing めStroke order in writing メ
Stroke order in writing め
Stroke order in writing メ

Other communicative representations

Japanese radiotelephony alphabetWabun code
明治のメ Meiji no "Me"ⓘ
Japanese Navy Signal FlagJapanese semaphoreJapanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling)Braille dots-123456 Japanese Braille
  • Full Braille representation
め / メ in Japanese Braille
め / メ meめい / メー mē/mei
Character information
Previewめメﾒ㋱
Unicode nameHIRAGANA LETTER MEKATAKANA LETTER MEHALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER MECIRCLED KATAKANA ME
Encodingsdecimalhexdechexdechexdechex
Unicode12417U+308112513U+30E165426U+FF9213041U+32F1
UTF-8227 130 129E3 82 81227 131 161E3 83 A1239 190 146EF BE 92227 139 177E3 8B B1
Numeric character referenceめめメメﾒﾒ㋱㋱
Shift JIS130 22382 DF131 12983 81210D2
EUC-JP164 225A4 E1165 225A5 E1142 2108E D2
GB 18030164 225A4 E1165 225A5 E1132 49 154 5484 31 9A 36
EUC-KR / UHC170 225AA E1171 225AB E1
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)198 229C6 E5199 121C7 79
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)199 104C7 68199 221C7 DD