ゑ in hiragana, or ヱ in katakana, is an obsolete Japanese kana that is normally pronounced [e] in current-day Japanese. The combination of a W-column kana...

ordering for the syllables which includes two obsolete syllables, wi (ゐ) and we (ゑ). A typical torifuda features a drawing with a kana at one corner of the card...

the hiragana syllabary consists of 48 base characters, of which two (ゐ and ゑ) are only used in some proper names: 5 singular vowels: あ /a/, い /i/, う /u/...

period. As demonstrated by 17th century-era European sources, the syllable we (ゑ・ヱ ) also came to be pronounced as [jɛ] (ye). If necessary, the modern orthography...

and ゑ but without voiced consonant marks) is: Note that: Archaic, obsolete, and historical hiragana uses ゐ (historic Japanese wi, modern i) and ゑ (historic...

Ebisu (えびす, 恵比須, 恵比寿, 夷, 戎), also transliterated Webisu (ゑびす, see historical kana orthography) or called Hiruko (蛭子) or Kotoshiro-nushi-no-kami (事代主神)...

こ/子 = 訟 - ゑ/訁 + て/扌 = 訣 - ゑ/訁 + た/⽥ = 訳 - ゑ/訁 + ゑ/訁 + た/⽥ = 譯 - ゑ/訁 + を/貝 = 訴 - ゑ/訁 + う/宀/#3 = 診 - ゑ/訁 + い/糹/#2 = 証 - ゑ/訁 + ゑ/訁 + い/糹/#2 = 證 - ゑ/訁 + に/氵...

sometime between the Kamakura and Taishō periods. Along with the kana for we ('ゑ' in hiragana, 'ヱ' in katakana), this kana was deemed obsolete in Japanese...

that its Japanese name includes the now-obsolete kana character we (ヱ or ゑ) for the even-older ye reading, an anachronism in keeping with historical...

reads a passage: "箸はし 取らと ば、 天地あめつち 御代みよの 御恵みおんめぐ 、 主君しゅくんや 親おやの 御恩ごおんあぢわゑ", which translates to "When I pick up the chopsticks, I receive the blessings...