wē

See also: Appendix:Variations of "we"

Hawaiian

Noun

wē

1. The name of the Latin-script letter W/w.

Japanese

Romanization

wē

1. Rōmaji transcription of ウェー

Mandarin

Alternative forms

• we — nonstandard

Romanization

wē (we¹, Zhuyin ㄨㄝ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of V

Maori

Etymology

Monophthongization (thus also doublet) of wai, see there for more details.

Noun

wē

1. water
2. liquid

   Synonym: wai

Further reading

• Williams, Herbert William (1917) “wē”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, pages 564-5
• “wē” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.