I (kana)

Hiragana	Katakana
Stroke order
Unicode
U + 3044	U + 30A4
origin
以	伊
Transliteration
Kunrei :	i
Hepburn :	i
50 sounds board
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い in hiragana orイ in katakana ( romanized i ) is one of the Japanese kana that represents a mora .い is based on the sōsho style of the kanji 以 .イ is derived from the radical of the kanji伊 . In modern Japanese alphabetical sorting , it comes in second place, betweenあ andう . It is also the first letter in the Iroha before theろ . Both represent [i] .

shape	Rōmaji	Hiragana	Katakana
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

For the combination い ぃ or イ ィ there is no uniform regulation in the Hepburn system, according to the variant Hyōjun-shiki in the 1974 version, this is transcribed as yi .

other forms
Shape ( y- ) Rōmaji Hiragana Katakana ( ya ) ( や ) ( ヤ ) ( yi ) ( い ) ( イ ) ( yu ) ( ゆ ) ( ユ ) ye い ぇ イ ェ ( yo ) ( よ ) ( ヨ )

variants

The scaled down versions of the kana ( ぃ , ィ ) are used to represent foreign phones in the Japanese language , for example フ ィ ( fi ).

Stroke order

Stroke sequence for い

Stroke sequence for イ

The hiragana い is drawn with two lines :

1. From the top left, a curved vertical line, ending with a hook at the bottom.
2. From the top right, a shorter line, curved slightly in the opposite direction.

The katakana イ is drawn with two lines:

1. From above, a curved diagonal from right to left.
2. From the middle of the last stroke, a vertical line down.

Other forms of representation

• Represented in Japanese Braille as:

• The Wabun code is ・ -.
• In the Japanese spelling table it is spelled as "い ろ は の イ" ( Iroha no I).

Web links

Wiktionary: い  - Explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 海 津 知 緒 : 標準 式 ロ ー マ 字 つ づ り - 引用 . (No longer available online.) December 6, 2003, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; Retrieved October 27, 2013 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.