Re (kana)
# Re (kana)

kana gojūon :

| wa | ra | ya | ma | ha | na | ta | sa | ka | a |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| wi | ri | yi | mi | hi | ni | chi | shi | ki | i |
| wu | ru | yu | mu | fu | nu | tsu | su | ku | u |
| we | re | ye | me | he | ne | te | se | ke | e |
| wo | ro | yo | mo | ho | no | to | so | ko | o |
| | | | n | | | | | | |

Kana modifiers and marks :

sokuonfu (gemination) · yōon (palatalization) · chōonpu (vowel lengthener) · Iteration marks · dakuten/handakuten (voiced & semi-voiced marks) :

Multi-syllabic kana :

iu · kashiko · koto · sama · shite · toki · tomo · nari · mairasesoro · yori :

vte :

れ, in hiragana, or レ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. The hiragana is written in two strokes, while katakana in one. Both represent the sound (listen). The shapes of these kana have origins in the character 礼. The Ainu language uses a small katakana ㇾ to represent a final r sound after an e sound (エㇾ er). The combination of an R-column kana letter with handakuten ゜- れ゚ in hiragana, and レ゚ in katakana was introduced to represent [le] in the early 20th century.

| Form | Rōmaji | Hiragana | Katakana |
| - | - | - | - |
| Normal r- (ら行 ra-gyō) | re | れ | レ |
| Normal r- (ら行 ra-gyō) | rei ree rē | れい, れぃ れえ, れぇ れー | レイ, レィ レエ, レェ レー |

## Stroke order

| Stroke order in writing れ | Stroke order in writing レ |
| - | - |

## Other communicative representations

| Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code |
| - | - |
| れんげのレ Renge no "Re" | ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ |
| Japanese Navy Signal Flag | Japanese semaphore | Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling) | Braille dots-1245 Japanese Braille |

* Full Braille representation

れ / レ in Japanese Braille :

| れ / レ re | れい / レー rē/rei |
| - | - |

* Computer encodings

Character information :

| Preview | れ | れ | レ | レ | ﾚ | ﾚ | ㇾ | ㇾ | ㋹ | ㋹ |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER RE | HIRAGANA LETTER RE | KATAKANA LETTER RE | KATAKANA LETTER RE | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER RE | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER RE | KATAKANA LETTER SMALL RE | KATAKANA LETTER SMALL RE | CIRCLED KATAKANA RE | CIRCLED KATAKANA RE |
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 12428 | U+308C | 12524 | U+30EC | 65434 | U+FF9A | 12798 | U+31FE | 13049 | U+32F9 |
| UTF-8 | 227 130 140 | E3 82 8C | 227 131 172 | E3 83 AC | 239 190 154 | EF BE 9A | 227 135 190 | E3 87 BE | 227 139 185 | E3 8B B9 |
| Numeric character reference | &#12428; | &#x308C; | &#12524; | &#x30EC; | &#65434; | &#xFF9A; | &#12798; | &#x31FE; | &#13049; | &#x32F9; |
| Shift JIS (plain) | 130 234 | 82 EA | 131 140 | 83 8C | 218 | DA | | | | |
| Shift JIS-2004 | 130 234 | 82 EA | 131 140 | 83 8C | 218 | DA | 131 251 | 83 FB | | |
| EUC-JP (plain) | 164 236 | A4 EC | 165 236 | A5 EC | 142 218 | 8E DA | | | | |
| EUC-JIS-2004 | 164 236 | A4 EC | 165 236 | A5 EC | 142 218 | 8E DA | 166 253 | A6 FD | | |
| GB 18030 | 164 236 | A4 EC | 165 236 | A5 EC | 132 49 155 52 | 84 31 9B 34 | 129 57 189 56 | 81 39 BD 38 | | |
| EUC-KR / UHC | 170 236 | AA EC | 171 236 | AB EC | | | | | | |
| Big5 (non-ETEN kana) | 198 240 | C6 F0 | 199 166 | C7 A6 | | | | | | |
| Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS) | 199 115 | C7 73 | 199 232 | C7 E8 | | | | | | |
