Se (kana)

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se
hiragana katakana
transliteration	se
translit. with dakuten	ze
hiragana origin	世
katakana origin	世
Man'yōgana	世 西 斉 勢 施 背 脊 迫 瀬
Voiced Man'yōgana	是 湍
spelling kana	世界のセ (Sekai no "se")

せ, in hiragana, or セ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. Both represent the sound [se], and when written with dakuten represent the sound [ze]. In the Ainu language, the katakana セ is sometimes written with a handakuten (which can be entered into a computer as either one character (セ゚) or two combined ones (セ゜) to represent the [t͡se] sound, and is interchangeable with ツェ (tse).