い
Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary
| Character | い |
|---|---|
| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER I |
| Codepoint | U+3044 |
See also Appendix:Variations of "i"
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[edit] Japanese
[edit] Etymology 1
Likely cognate with Korean i.
[edit] Particle
い (romaji i)
- 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
- 797: Shoku Nihongi (edict #6)
- 京職大夫從三位藤原朝臣麻呂等伊負圖龜一頭獻止
- 797: Shoku Nihongi (edict #12)
- 聞看食國中能東方陸奥國守從五位上百濟王敬福伊部内少田郡仁黄金出在奏弖獻
- 797: Shoku Nihongi (edict #34)
- 然後仁逆心乎以天朝庭乎動傾止之天兵乎備流時仁和氣伊申天在
- c. 759: Man'yōshū (book 4, poem #545)
- 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
- 712 Kojiki (page 158)
- emphatic deictic; emphasizes preceding phrase
- 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
- 797: Shoku Nihongi (edict #45)
- verbal stem suffix; nominalizes verb creating adverbial inflection; see quadrigrade and other conjugations
- unbound nominalizing suffix; eg, ko (“tree”) <-> ki (“tree”), taka (“height”) <-> take (“height”), ho (“fire”) <-> hi (“fire”)
[edit] Derived terms
[edit] Etymology 2
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Derived in the Heian period from writing the man'yōgana kanji 以 in the cursive sōsho style.
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /i/
[edit] Syllable
い (Hepburn romanization i)
- The hiragana syllable い (i), whose equivalent in katakana is イ (i). It is the second syllable of the gojūon order, and its position in gojūon tables is あ行い段 (A-gyō, I-dan; “row A, section I”).
[edit] Related terms
- For a list of words starting with い (i) see: Special:Allpages/い
[edit] See also
- (Hiragana) 平仮名; あぁ, いぃ, うぅゔ, えぇ, おぉ, かゕが, きぎ, くぐ, けゖげ, こご, さざ, しじ, すず, せぜ, そぞ, ただ, ちぢ, つっづ, てで, とど, な, に, ぬ, ね, の, はばぱ, ひびぴ, ふぶぷ, へべぺ, ほぼぽ, ま, み, む, め, も, やゃ, ゆゅ, よょ, ら, り, る, れ, ろ, わゎ, ゐ, ゑ, を, ん, ー, ゝ, ゞ, ゟ [edit]
[edit] Noun
い (romaji i)
[edit] Kanji reading
い (romaji i)
[edit] On-reading of:
[edit] References
- 1958, Kurano, Kenji; Yūkichi Takeda, Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 1: Kojiki, Norito, Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-0006-0001-X:
- 1936, Kurano, Kenji, Shoku Nihongi Senmyō (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-00-300381-0:
- 1999 [c. 759], Satake, Akihiro; Hideo Yamada, Rikio Kudō, Masao Ōtani, Yoshiyuki Yamazaki, Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 1: Man'yōshū 1 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-00-240001-8:
- 2000 [c. 759], Satake, Akihiro; Hideo Yamada, Rikio Kudō, Masao Ōtani, Yoshiyuki Yamazaki, Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 2: Man'yōshū 2 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-00-240002-6:
- 2002 [c. 759], Satake, Akihiro; Hideo Yamada, Rikio Kudō, Masao Ōtani, Yoshiyuki Yamazaki, Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 3: Man'yōshū 3 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-00-240003-4:
