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 せえ せー	セイ セエ セー
Addition dakuten z- (ざ行 za-gyō)	ze	ぜ	ゼ
	zei zee zē	ぜい ぜえ ぜー	ゼイ ゼエ ゼー

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	decimal	hex	decimal	hex	decimal	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 ZE		KATAKANA LETTER ZE		KATAKANA LETTER AINU CE[8]
Encodings	decimal	hex	decimal	hex	decimal	hex
Unicode	12380	U+305C	12476	U+30BC	12475 12442	U+30BB+309A
UTF-8	227 129 156	E3 81 9C	227 130 188	E3 82 BC	227 130 187 227 130 154	E3 82 BB E3 82 9A
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

References

1. Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-03-08]. "Shift-JIS to Unicode".
2. Unicode Consortium; IBM. "EUC-JP-2007". International Components for Unicode.
3. Standardization Administration of China (SAC) (2005-11-18). GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set.
4. Unicode Consortium; IBM. "IBM-970". International Components for Unicode.
5. Steele, Shawn (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". Microsoft / Unicode Consortium.
6. Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-02-11]. "BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".
7. van Kesteren, Anne. "big5". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.
8. Unicode Consortium. "Unicode Named Character Sequences". Unicode Character Database.
9. Project X0213 (2009-05-03). "Shift_JIS-2004 (JIS X 0213:2004 Appendix 1) vs Unicode mapping table".
10. Project X0213 (2009-05-03). "EUC-JIS-2004 (JIS X 0213:2004 Appendix 3) vs Unicode mapping table".