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da fuck are these ゑ , ゐ lol
(I do know now I'm just surprised somehow it's the first time I see those)
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1. hiragana "we" (historical kana)Obsolete term
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2. We (kana)ゑ, in hiragana, or ヱ in katakana, is a nearly obsolete Japanese kana. It is presumed that ゑ represented . It is thought that, after ゑ and え came to denote the same pronunciation as イェ in the Kamakura period, they came to be pronounced as the modern エ [e e]; there is also the view that the pronunciation difference between the two kana remained until the Taishō period.
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1. hiragana "wi" (historical kana)Obsolete term
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2. Wi (kana)ゐ, in and that ゐ and い indicated different pronunciations until somewhere between the Kamakura period and the Taishō period when they both came to be pronounced [i i]. Along with the kana for we, (ゑ in hiragana, ヱ in katakana), this kana was deemed obsolete in Japanese in 1946, and replaced with い and イ. It is now rare in everyday usage; in onomatopoeia and foreign words, the katakana form ウィ (U-) is preferred.
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Finally gave DIMLIM's Kidoairaku a listen and it's.... an experience. The acapella tracks sound like improv theatre recordings. Had I heard it with no context I'd be in a serious state of WTF. The first CD tho 👌