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hiragana	katakana^[1]
another katakana^[2]

transliteration

hiragana origin

江

katakana origin

江

another katakana origin

延

Man'yōgana

曳延要遥叡兄江吉枝衣

unicode

U+1B001

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

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Ye (hiragana: 𛀁, katakana: エ, sometimes distinguished as 𛄡) is a Japanese mora or a kana used to write it, no longer in standard use.^[3]

^ Traditional kana
^ Constructed in Edo period–Meiji period
^ Iannacone, Jake (2020). "Reply to The Origin of Hiragana /wu/ 平仮名のわ行うの字源に対する新たな発見"