Ke (hiragana: ãÂÂ, katakana: ã±) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. Both represent . The shape of these kana come from the kanji 訠and ä»Â, respectively.
A dakuten may be added to this character; this changes it to ã in hiragana, ã² in katakana, ge in Hepburn romanization and the pronunciation shifts to in initial positions and varying between and in the middle of words.
A handakuten (ãÂÂ) does not occur with ke in normal Japanese text, but it may be used by linguists to indicate a nasal pronunciation .