て (te), hiragana basic
て
te
た row · e column
hiraganabasic1 stroke
Stroke order
katakana counterpart
Variants
Words with て
手てhand
天気てんきweather
天ぷらてんぷらtempura
How to remember it
てImagine an arm reaching down from a shoulder. The Japanese word for hand is te, written 手.
Where it comes from
天て
て developed from the cursive writing of 天, simplified into one connected stroke.