テ (te), katakana basic
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katakanabasic3 strokes
Stroke order
hiragana counterpart
Variants
Similar characters
Words with テ
テレビTV; television
テストtest
How to remember it
テA short bar sits above a longer bar, with a stroke dropping below. Imagine a T wearing a hat: te.
Where it comes from
天テ
テ comes from part of 天. Compare hiragana て, which developed through cursive writing.