Se (kana)

せ, in hiragana, or セ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. Both represent the sound [se], and when written with dakuten represent the sound [ze]. In the Ainu language, the katakana セ is sometimes written with a handakuten (which can be entered into a computer as either one character (セ゚) or two combined ones (セ゜) to represent the [t͡se] sound, and is interchangeable with ツェ (tse).

Form	Rōmaji	Hiragana	Katakana
Normal s- (さ行 sa-gyō)	se	せ	セ
	sei see sē	せい, せぃ せえ, せぇ せー	セイ, セィ セエ, セェ セー
Addition dakuten z- (ざ行 za-gyō)	ze	ぜ	ゼ
	zei zee zē	ぜい, ぜぃ ぜえ, ぜぇ ぜー	ゼイ, ゼィ ゼエ, ゼェ ゼー

"せ" redirects here. For the bopomofo, see ㄝ.

se
Hiragana Katakana
Transliteration	se
Translit. with dakuten	ze
Hiragana origin	世
Katakana origin	世
Man'yōgana	世 西 斉 勢 施 背 脊 迫 瀬
Voiced man'yōgana	是 湍
Spelling kana	世界のセ (Sekai no "se")

Stroke order

Stroke order in writing せ

Stroke order in writing セ

Stroke order in writing せ

Stroke order in writing セ

Other communicative representations

Japanese radiotelephony alphabet	Wabun code
世界のセ Sekai no "Se"	▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄ ⓘ

Japanese Navy Signal Flag	Japanese semaphore	Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling)	Braille dots-12456 Japanese Braille

• Full Braille representation

せ / セ in Japanese Braille
せ / セ se	ぜ / ゼ ze	せい / セー sē/sei	ぜい / ゼー zē/zei

• Computer encodings

Character information

Preview	せ		セ		ｾ		㋝
Unicode name	HIRAGANA LETTER SE		KATAKANA LETTER SE		HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER SE		CIRCLED KATAKANA SE
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	12379	U+305B	12475	U+30BB	65406	U+FF7E	13021	U+32DD
UTF-8	227 129 155	E3 81 9B	227 130 187	E3 82 BB	239 189 190	EF BD BE	227 139 157	E3 8B 9D
Numeric character reference	せ	せ	セ	セ	ｾ	ｾ	㋝	㋝
Shift JIS[1]	130 185	82 B9	131 90	83 5A	190	BE
EUC-JP[2]	164 187	A4 BB	165 187	A5 BB	142 190	8E BE
GB 18030[3]	164 187	A4 BB	165 187	A5 BB	132 49 152 54	84 31 98 36
EUC-KR[4] / UHC[5]	170 187	AA BB	171 187	AB BB
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[6]	198 191	C6 BF	199 83	C7 53
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[7]	199 66	C7 42	199 183	C7 B7

Character information

Preview	𛄶		𛅗		ぜ		ゼ		セ゚
Unicode name	HIRAGANA LETTER SMALL SE		KATAKANA LETTER SMALL SE		HIRAGANA LETTER ZE		KATAKANA LETTER ZE		KATAKANA LETTER AINU CE[8]
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	110902	U+1B136	110935	U+1B157	12380	U+305C	12476	U+30BC	12475 12442	U+30BB+309A
UTF-8	240 155 132 182	F0 9B 84 B6	240 155 133 151	F0 9B 85 97	227 129 156	E3 81 9C	227 130 188	E3 82 BC	227 130 187 227 130 154	E3 82 BB E3 82 9A
UTF-16	55340 56630	D82C DD36	55340 56663	D82C DD57	12380	305C	12476	30BC	12475 12442	30BB 309A
Numeric character reference	𛄶	𛄶	𛅗	𛅗	ぜ	ぜ	ゼ	ゼ	セ゚	セ゚
Shift JIS (plain)[1]	130 186	82 BA	131 91	83 5B
Shift JIS-2004[9]	130 186	82 BA	131 91	83 5B	131 156	83 9C
EUC-JP (plain)[2]	164 188	A4 BC	165 188	A5 BC
EUC-JIS-2004[10]	164 188	A4 BC	165 188	A5 BC	165 252	A5 FC
GB 18030[3]	164 188	A4 BC	165 188	A5 BC
EUC-KR[4] / UHC[5]	170 188	AA BC	171 188	AB BC
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[6]	198 192	C6 C0	199 84	C7 54
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[7]	199 67	C7 43	199 184	C7 B8