I (kana)
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| kana - gojūon | |||||||||||
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| n | wa | ra | ya | ma | ha | na | ta | sa | ka | a | |
| tsu | wi | ri | mi | hi | ni | chi | shi | ki | i | ||
| ゛ | ru | yu | mu | fu | nu | tsu | su | ku | u | ||
| ー | we | re | me | he | ne | te | se | ke | e | ||
| wo | ro | yo | mo | ho | no | to | so | ko | o | ||
い in hiragana or イ in katakana (romanised i) is one of the Japanese kana that each respresent 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 alphabetical order, it is occupies the second position of the alphabet, between あ and う. Additionally, it is the first letter in Iroha, before ろ. In order to write the hiragana い, draw a curve, not entirely unlike a parenthesis, stroke upward from the bottom, and then draw a smaller, floating curve to the side. The Unicode for い is U+3044, and the Unicode for イ is U+30A4.
It is pronounced [i].
| Form | Rōmaji | Hiragana | Katakana |
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| Normal a/i/u/e/o (あ行 a-gyō) |
i | い | イ |
| ii ī |
いい, いぃ いー |
イイ, イィ イー |
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[edit] Variant forms
Scaled-down versions of the kana (ぃ, ィ) are used to express morae foreign to the Japanese language, such as フィ (fi).
[edit] Strokes
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[edit] Alternative forms
In Japanese Braille, い or イ is represented as:
| ● | － |
| ● | － |
| － | － |
The Morse code for い or イ, is ・－.
In Japanese phonetic alphabet, one would say "いろはのイ" (Iroha no I.)
