え (e), hiragana basic
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Vowel e
hiraganabasic2 strokes
Stroke order
Pronunciation
Keep the front of your tongue at mid height for e. Do not let the vowel glide into an i sound as it often does in English say.
katakana counterpart
Words with え
絵えpicture / drawing / painting
駅えきtrain station
映画えいがmovie; film
How to remember it
えPicture an energetic dancer with one arm raised and a foot stretched out to the right: e.
Where it comes from
衣え
え developed from a flowing handwritten form of 衣. The source character means clothing, but え represents a sound.