What テ means
It represents the Japanese sound “te.”
Katakana grew from shortened Chinese characters used in Buddhist reading notes in the early 9th century. The notes helped readers add Japanese readings to Chinese texts, and katakana forms were standardized by the 12th century.
Katakana is used for things such as borrowed words, foreign names, sound effects and emphasis. The surrounding word shows why it is used; テ alone does not signal an emotion.
Who writes テ
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Alphabet
Questions people ask
1Why does テ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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Collections with テ
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How to type or find テ
- Search it as
- te · katakana · hiragana
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
テCSS
\30C6How do I type テ?
In Microsoft Japanese IME, as of 2026, type te in romaji (Latin-letter) mode, then press F7 before confirming to convert the input to full-width katakana.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
テ
HTML hex
テ
CSS content
content: "\30C6";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E3%83%86
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.