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[edit] Translingual

The Hiragana script
Additional symbols
Unicode: U+3044Hepburn romanization: iNihon-shiki romanization: iPolivanov cyrillization: и, йJapanese braille:

[edit] Syllable

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

[edit] Japanese

[edit] Etymology 1

Likely cognate with Korean i.

[edit] Particle

(romaji i)

  1. emphatic nominative case marker
    吾背子之 跡履求 追去者 木乃関守 将留鴨
    在千方 在名草目而 行目友 家有妹 将鬱悒
    乾坤乃 神乎禱而 吾恋 公必 不相在目八方
    筑波祢乃 乎弖毛許能母尓 毛利敝須恵 波播毛礼杼母 多麻曾阿比尓家留
  2. emphatic accusative case marker
    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 伊斯都都母知 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
    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 不絶妹跡 結而石 事者不果 [...]
    向岳之 若楓木 下杖取 花待間尓 嘆鶴鴨
    青柳之 糸乃細紗 春風尓 不乱間尓 令視子裳欲得
  4. pronominal; person or thing; one
    、捨
  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)
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[edit] Etymology 2

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

[edit] Hiragana character

(romaji i)

  1. The /i/ syllable.
  2. The second character in the gojūon ordering of hiragana. The previous character is and the next character is . The equivalent katakana character is .
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[edit] Noun

(romaji i)

  1. : stomach
  2. : position
  3. : will, soul
  4. : well

[edit] Kanji reading

(romaji i)

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