き

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Syllable 2 Japanese 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Hiragana character 2.2.1 Related terms 2.2.2 Derived terms 2.3 Kanji reading 2.3.1 On-reading of: 2.3.2 Kun-reading of: 2.4 Noun

[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
き Unicode: U+304DKatakana: キHepburn romanization: kiNihon-shiki romanization: kiPolivanov cyrillization: киJapanese braille: ⠣

[edit] Syllable

き

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

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[edit] Japanese

Stroke order

[edit] Etymology

Derived in the Heian period from writing the man'yōgana kanji 機 or 幾 in the cursive sōsho style.

[edit] Hiragana character

き (romaji ki)

1. The /ki/ syllable.
2. The seventh character in the gojūon ordering of hiragana. The previous character is か and the next character is く. The equivalent katakana character is キ.

[edit] Related terms

• For a list of words starting with き (ki) see: Special:Allpages/き

[edit] Derived terms

ぎ (gi)

[edit] Kanji reading

き (romaji ki)

[edit] On-reading of:

• 貴: noble, precious
• 機: machine, moment, chance
• 記: record
• 希: hope, expect
• 姫: beauty
• 忌: anniversary of a person's death
• 季: season
• 几: small table
• 幾: how many, some
• 紀
• 黄
• 木
• 喜
• 㐂
• 気
• 期
• 器
• 鬼
• 樹
• 旣

[edit] Kun-reading of:

• 黄： yellow

[edit] Noun

き (romaji ki)

1. 木： tree
2. 気： air, spirit