# He (kana)

kana gojūon :
| wa | ra | ya | ma | ha | na | ta | sa | ka | a |
| wi | ri | (yi) | mi | hi | ni | chi | shi | ki | i |
| (wu) | ru | yu | mu | fu | nu | tsu | su | ku | u |
| we | re | (ye) | me | he | ne | te | se | ke | e |
| wo | ro | yo | mo | ho | no | to | so | ko | o |
| | | | n | | | | | | |
Kana modifiers and marks :
sokuonfu (gemination)
yōon (palatalization)
chōonpu (vowel lengthener)
Iteration marks
dakuten/handakuten (voiced & semi-voiced marks) :
Multi-moraic kana :
iu
kashiko
koto
sama
shite
toki
tomo
nari
mairasesoro
yori :
vte :
へ, in hiragana, or ヘ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which represents one mora. The sound is the only sound that is written identically in hiragana and katakana and therefore confusable according to the Unicode Standard. In the Sakhalin dialect of the Ainu language, ヘ can be written as small ㇸ to represent a final after an sound (エㇸ).
It is usually pronounced with the aspirate before its vowel. It is also often used as a grammatical particle indicating direction, which makes only the vowel sound.
Though the two forms へ and ヘ are usually rendered with a small difference between them, in order to match better with the appearance of other hiragana or katakana characters, they can often be rendered identically. A reader is not expected to distinguish one from the other without contextual clues.
| Forms | Rōmaji | Hiragana | Katakana | Example words (with kanji) |
| Normal h- (は行 ha-gyō) | he | へ | ヘ | へび hebi 蛇 snake へる heru 減る abate/decrease へんか henka 変化 change/modification へい hei 塀 wall へいあん heian 平安 tranquility |
| Normal h- (は行 ha-gyō) | hei hee hē | へい, へぃ へえ, へぇ へー | ヘイ, ヘィ ヘエ, ヘェ ヘー | へび hebi 蛇 snake へる heru 減る abate/decrease へんか henka 変化 change/modification へい hei 塀 wall へいあん heian 平安 tranquility |
| Addition dakuten b- (ば行 ba-gyō) | be | べ | ベ | かべ kabe 壁 wall べんきょう benkyō 勉強 studying ベッド beddo bed なんべい nanbei 南米 South America |
| Addition dakuten b- (ば行 ba-gyō) | bei bee bē | べい, べぃ べえ, べぇ べー | ベイ, ベィ ベエ, ベェ ベー | かべ kabe 壁 wall べんきょう benkyō 勉強 studying ベッド beddo bed なんべい nanbei 南米 South America |
| Addition handakuten p- (ぱ行 pa-gyō) | pe | ぺ | ペ | いっぺん ippen 一辺 on a side ペルー perū Peru |
| Addition handakuten p- (ぱ行 pa-gyō) | pei pee pē | ぺい, ぺぃ ぺえ, ぺぇ ぺー | ペイ, ペィ ペエ, ペェ ペー | いっぺん ippen 一辺 on a side ペルー perū Peru |

## Stroke order

The stroke order is identical between hiragana and katakana.
| Stroke order in writing へ | Stroke order in writing ヘ |
| Stroke order in writing へ | Stroke order in writing ヘ |

## Other communicative representations

| Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code |
| 平和のヘ Heiwa no "He" | ▄ |
| Japanese Navy Signal Flag | Japanese semaphore | Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling) | Braille dots-12346 Japanese Braille |
* Full Braille representation
へ / ヘ in Japanese Braille :
| へ / ヘ he | べ / ベ be | ぺ / ペ pe | へい / ヘー hē/hei | べい / ベー bē/bei | ぺい / ペー pē/pei |
* Computer encodings
Character information :
| Preview | へ | へ | ヘ | ヘ | ﾍ | ﾍ | ㇸ | ㇸ | ㋬ | ㋬ |
| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER HE | HIRAGANA LETTER HE | KATAKANA LETTER HE | KATAKANA LETTER HE | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER HE | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER HE | KATAKANA LETTER SMALL HE | KATAKANA LETTER SMALL HE | CIRCLED KATAKANA HE | CIRCLED KATAKANA HE |
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 12408 | U+3078 | 12504 | U+30D8 | 65421 | U+FF8D | 12792 | U+31F8 | 13036 | U+32EC |
| UTF-8 | 227 129 184 | E3 81 B8 | 227 131 152 | E3 83 98 | 239 190 141 | EF BE 8D | 227 135 184 | E3 87 B8 | 227 139 172 | E3 8B AC |
| Numeric character reference | &#12408; | &#x3078; | &#12504; | &#x30D8; | &#65421; | &#xFF8D; | &#12792; | &#x31F8; | &#13036; | &#x32EC; |
| Shift JIS (plain) | 130 214 | 82 D6 | 131 119 | 83 77 | 205 | CD | | | | |
| Shift JIS-2004 | 130 214 | 82 D6 | 131 119 | 83 77 | 205 | CD | 131 244 | 83 F4 | | |
| EUC-JP (plain) | 164 216 | A4 D8 | 165 216 | A5 D8 | 142 205 | 8E CD | | | | |
| EUC-JIS-2004 | 164 216 | A4 D8 | 165 216 | A5 D8 | 142 205 | 8E CD | 166 246 | A6 F6 | | |
| GB 18030 | 164 216 | A4 D8 | 165 216 | A5 D8 | 132 49 154 49 | 84 31 9A 31 | 129 57 189 50 | 81 39 BD 32 | | |
| EUC-KR / UHC | 170 216 | AA D8 | 171 216 | AB D8 | | | | | | |
| Big5 (non-ETEN kana) | 198 220 | C6 DC | 199 112 | C7 70 | | | | | | |
| Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS) | 199 95 | C7 5F | 199 212 | C7 D4 | | | | | | |
Character information :
| Preview | べ | べ | ベ | ベ | ぺ | ぺ | ペ | ペ |
| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER BE | HIRAGANA LETTER BE | KATAKANA LETTER BE | KATAKANA LETTER BE | HIRAGANA LETTER PE | HIRAGANA LETTER PE | KATAKANA LETTER PE | KATAKANA LETTER PE |
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 12409 | U+3079 | 12505 | U+30D9 | 12410 | U+307A | 12506 | U+30DA |
| UTF-8 | 227 129 185 | E3 81 B9 | 227 131 153 | E3 83 99 | 227 129 186 | E3 81 BA | 227 131 154 | E3 83 9A |
| Numeric character reference | &#12409; | &#x3079; | &#12505; | &#x30D9; | &#12410; | &#x307A; | &#12506; | &#x30DA; |
| Shift JIS | 130 215 | 82 D7 | 131 120 | 83 78 | 130 216 | 82 D8 | 131 121 | 83 79 |
| EUC-JP | 164 217 | A4 D9 | 165 217 | A5 D9 | 164 218 | A4 DA | 165 218 | A5 DA |
| GB 18030 | 164 217 | A4 D9 | 165 217 | A5 D9 | 164 218 | A4 DA | 165 218 | A5 DA |
| EUC-KR / UHC | 170 217 | AA D9 | 171 217 | AB D9 | 170 218 | AA DA | 171 218 | AB DA |
| Big5 (non-ETEN kana) | 198 221 | C6 DD | 199 113 | C7 71 | 198 222 | C6 DE | 199 114 | C7 72 |
| Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS) | 199 96 | C7 60 | 199 213 | C7 D5 | 199 97 | C7 61 | 199 214 | C7 D6 |

## See Also

* Japanese particles: へ