What does ゑ mean in Japanese?

Hiragana in Japanese evolved from cursive script in China's calligraphy. The prototype of Hiragana is the cursive script of the Chinese character "Hui".

ゑ is a pen name that only appeared in Japanese before World War II, and it is quite common. In modern Japanese, it has been merged with ぇ and is no longer used. If it appears, it is generally pronounced as e, such as こ and ko e, but when it appears as an auxiliary word or adverb, it should still be pronounced as we.

Sound (こゑ)-sound-Kowe (Koe).

Park (こぅゑん)-Park-Kouwen (Kuhn)).

Get (ゑ)-get-we (e).

Extended data

When pronouncing unvoiced sounds, the lips are slightly tightened, making a W sound in we, and then the mouth is opened, the facial muscles are tightened backwards, and the mouth is slightly larger, naturally making an E sound, and the opening is slightly larger than the wai sound in Chinese. The pronunciation of "ゑ" is similar to the pronunciation of "crooked" in Chinese.

It should be noted that this does not mean that the pronunciation of the pen name ゑ has changed, and its pronunciation is still "we". To show the difference, when the two pseudonyms ゑ and ゑ appear at the same time, the latter should still be pronounced as "we".

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