い

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Syllable 2 Japanese 2.1 Etymology 1 2.1.1 Particle 2.1.1.1 Derived terms 2.2 Etymology 2 2.2.1 Hiragana character 2.2.1.1 Related terms 2.2.2 Noun 2.2.3 Kanji reading 2.2.3.1 On-reading of: 2.3 References

[edit] Translingual

The Hiragana script
あぁ	かゕが	さざ	ただ	な	はばぱ	ま	やゃ	ら	わゎ	ん
いぃ	きぎ	しじ	ちぢ	に	ひびぴ	み		り	ゐ
うぅゔ	くぐ	すず	つっづ	ぬ	ふぶぷ	む	ゆゅ	る
えぇ	けゖげ	せぜ	てで	ね	へべぺ	め		れ	ゑ
おぉ	こご	そぞ	とど	の	ほぼぽ	も	よょ	ろ	を
Additional symbols ーゝゞゟ
い Unicode: U+3044Hepburn romanization: iNihon-shiki romanization: iPolivanov cyrillization: и, йJapanese braille: ⠃

[edit] Syllable

い

1. The hiragana syllable at あ行い段 (row A, section I) in a gojūon table.

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Etymology 1

Likely cognate with Korean i.

[edit] Particle

い (romaji i)

1. emphatic nominative case marker
   • c. 759: Man'yōshū (book 4, poem #545)

   吾背子之 跡履求 追去者 木乃関守伊 将留鴨

   • c. 759: Man'yōshū (book 12, poem #3161)

   在千方 在名草目而 行目友 家有妹伊 将鬱悒

   • c. 759: Man'yōshū (book 13, poem #3287)

   乾坤乃 神乎禱而 吾恋 公以必 不相在目八方

   • c. 759: Man'yōshū (book 14, poem #3393)

   筑波祢乃 乎弖毛許能母尓 毛利敝須恵 波播已毛礼杼母 多麻曾阿比尓家留

2. emphatic accusative case marker
   • 712 Kojiki (page 158)

   意佐加能 意富牟盧夜爾 比登佐波爾 岐伊理袁理 比登佐波爾 伊理袁理登母 美都美都斯 久米能古賀 久夫都都伊 伊斯都都伊母知 宇知弖斯夜麻牟 美都美都斯 久米能古良賀 久夫都都伊 伊斯都都伊母知 伊麻宇多婆余良斯

3. emphatic deictic; emphasizes preceding phrase
   • c. 759: Man'yōshū (book 3, poem #481)

   白細之 袖指可倍弖 靡寢 吾黒髪乃 真白髪尓 成極新世尓 共将有跡 玉緒乃 不絶射妹跡 結而石 事者不果 [...]

   • c. 759: Man'yōshū (book 7, poem #1359)

   向岳之 若楓木 下杖取 花待伊間尓 嘆鶴鴨

   • c. 759: Man'yōshū (book 10, poem #1851)

   青柳之 糸乃細紗 春風尓 不乱伊間尓 令視子裳欲得

4. pronominal; person or thing; one
   • 797: Shoku Nihongi (edict #45)

   此_乎持_伊波稱_乎致_之、捨_伊波謗_乎招_都

5. verbal stem suffix; nominalizes verb creating adverbial inflection; see quadrigrade and other conjugations
6. unbound nominalizing suffix; eg, ko (“‘tree’”) <-> ki (“‘tree’”), taka (“‘height’”) <-> take (“‘height’”), ho (“‘fire’”) <-> hi (“‘fire’”)

[edit] Derived terms

• いは (iwa)
• いし (ishi)
• いも (imo)

[edit] Etymology 2

Wikipedia

Stroke order

Derived in the Heian period from writing the man'yōgana kanji 以 in the cursive sōsho style.

[edit] Hiragana character

い (romaji i)

1. The /i/ syllable.
2. The second character in the gojūon ordering of hiragana. The previous character is あ and the next character is う. The equivalent katakana character is イ.

[edit] Related terms

• For a list of words starting with い (i) see: Special:Allpages/い

[edit] Noun

い (romaji i)

1. 胃: stomach
2. 位: position
3. 意: will, soul
4. 井: well

[edit] Kanji reading

い (romaji i)

[edit] On-reading of:

• 已
• 以
• 伊
• 衣
• 位
• 囲
• 依
• 委
• 易
• 威
• 為
• 畏
• 尉
• 異
• 移
• 萎
• 偉
• 彙
• 違
• 維
• 慰
• 遺
• 緯

[edit] References

• Kurano, Kenji; Yūkichi Takeda (1958). Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 1: Kojiki, Norito. Iwanami Shoten. ISBN 4-0006-0001-X.
• Kurano, Kenji (1936). Shoku Nihongi Senmyō (in Japanese). Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten. ISBN 4-00-300381-0.
• Satake, Akihiro; Hideo Yamada, Rikio Kudō, Masao Ōtani, Yoshiyuki Yamazaki [c. 759] (1999). Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 1: Man'yōshū 1 (in Japanese). Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten. ISBN 4-00-240001-8.
• Satake, Akihiro; Hideo Yamada, Rikio Kudō, Masao Ōtani, Yoshiyuki Yamazaki [c. 759] (2000). Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 2: Man'yōshū 2 (in Japanese). Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten. ISBN 4-00-240002-6.
• Satake, Akihiro; Hideo Yamada, Rikio Kudō, Masao Ōtani, Yoshiyuki Yamazaki [c. 759] (2002). Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 3: Man'yōshū 3 (in Japanese). Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten. ISBN 4-00-240003-4.