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| transliteration | i | ||
| hiragana origin | 以 | ||
| katakana origin | 伊 | ||
| Man'yōgana | 伊 怡 以 異 已 移 射 五 | ||
| spelling kana | いろはのイ (Iroha no "i") | ||
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I (い in hiragana or イ in katakana) is one of the Japanese kana each of which represents one mora. い is based on the sōsho style of the kanji character 以, and イ is from the radical (left part) of the kanji character 伊. In the modern Japanese system of sound order, it occupies the second position of the syllable chart, between あ and う. Additionally, it is the first letter in Iroha, before ろ. Both represent the sound [i]. In the Ainu language, katakana イ is written as y in their Latin-based syllable chart, and a small ィ after another katakana represents a diphthong.
| Form | Rōmaji | Hiragana | Katakana |
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| Normal a/i/u/e/o (あ行 a-gyō) |
i | い | イ |
| ii, yi ī |
いい, いぃ いー |
イイ, イィ イー |
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Variant forms
Like other vowels, scaled-down versions of the kana (ぃ, ィ) are used to express sounds foreign to the Japanese language, such as フィ (fi). In some Okinawan writing systems, a small ぃ is also combined with the kana く (ku) and ふ to form the digraphs くぃ kwi and ふぃ hwi respectively, although the Ryukyu University system uses the kana ゐ/ヰ instead.
Origin
い comes from the left part of the Kanji 以, while イ originates from the left part of the Kanji 伊.[1] An alternate form - 𛀆, based on the full cursive form of 以 is one of the most common hentaigana, as it merged with い late in the development of modern Japanese writing.
Stroke order
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The Hiragana い is made in two strokes:
- At the top left, a curved vertical stroke, ending with a hook at the bottom.
- At the top right, a shorter stroke, slightly curving in the opposite direction.
The Katakana イ is made in two strokes:
- At the top, a curved diagonal line going from right to left.
- In the center of the last stroke, a vertical line going down.
Other communicative representations
| Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code |
| いろはのイ Iroha no "I" |
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| Japanese Navy Signal Flag | Japanese semaphore | Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling) | Braille dots-12 Japanese Braille |
- Full Braille representation
| い / イ in Japanese Braille | ||
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| い / イ i |
いい / イー ī |
+い / +ー chōon* |
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* When lengthening "-i" or "-e" syllables in Japanese braille, a chōon is always used, as is standard in katakana orthography, instead of adding the い / イ kana.
| Preview | い | イ | ｲ | ㋑ | ||||
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| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER I | KATAKANA LETTER I | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER I | CIRCLED KATAKANA I | ||||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 12356 | U+3044 | 12452 | U+30A4 | 65394 | U+FF72 | 13009 | U+32D1 |
| UTF-8 | 227 129 132 | E3 81 84 | 227 130 164 | E3 82 A4 | 239 189 178 | EF BD B2 | 227 139 145 | E3 8B 91 |
| Numeric character reference | い |
い |
イ |
イ |
ｲ |
ｲ |
㋑ |
㋑ |
| Shift JIS[2] | 130 162 | 82 A2 | 131 67 | 83 43 | 178 | B2 | ||
| EUC-JP[3] | 164 164 | A4 A4 | 165 164 | A5 A4 | 142 178 | 8E B2 | ||
| GB 18030[4] | 164 164 | A4 A4 | 165 164 | A5 A4 | 132 49 151 52 | 84 31 97 34 | 129 57 209 55 | 81 39 D1 37 |
| EUC-KR[5] / UHC[6] | 170 164 | AA A4 | 171 164 | AB A4 | ||||
| Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[7] | 198 168 | C6 A8 | 198 251 | C6 FB | ||||
| Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[8] | 198 234 | C6 EA | 199 126 | C7 7E | ||||
| Preview | ぃ | ィ | ｨ | |||
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| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER SMALL I | KATAKANA LETTER SMALL I | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER SMALL I | |||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 12355 | U+3043 | 12451 | U+30A3 | 65384 | U+FF68 |
| UTF-8 | 227 129 131 | E3 81 83 | 227 130 163 | E3 82 A3 | 239 189 168 | EF BD A8 |
| Numeric character reference | ぃ |
ぃ |
ィ |
ィ |
ｨ |
ｨ |
| Shift JIS[2] | 130 161 | 82 A1 | 131 66 | 83 42 | 168 | A8 |
| EUC-JP[3] | 164 163 | A4 A3 | 165 163 | A5 A3 | 142 168 | 8E A8 |
| GB 18030[4] | 164 163 | A4 A3 | 165 163 | A5 A3 | 132 49 150 52 | 84 31 96 34 |
| EUC-KR[5] / UHC[6] | 170 163 | AA A3 | 171 163 | AB A3 | ||
| Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[7] | 198 167 | C6 A7 | 198 250 | C6 FA | ||
| Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[8] | 198 233 | C6 E9 | 199 125 | C7 7D | ||
Footnotes
- ^ Where do the kana come from
- ^ a b Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-03-08]. "Shift-JIS to Unicode".
- ^ a b Unicode Consortium; IBM. "EUC-JP-2007". International Components for Unicode.
- ^ a b Standardization Administration of China (SAC) (2005-11-18). GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set.
- ^ a b Unicode Consortium; IBM. "IBM-970". International Components for Unicode.
- ^ a b Steele, Shawn (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". Microsoft / Unicode Consortium.
- ^ a b Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-02-11]. "BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".
- ^ a b van Kesteren, Anne. "big5". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.
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