み

Character	み
Unicode name	HIRAGANA LETTER MI
Codepoint	U+307F

Japanese

Stroke order

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /mi/

Syllable

み (Hepburn romanization mi)

1. The hiragana syllable み (mi), whose equivalent in katakana is ミ (mi). It is the thirty-second syllable of the gojūon order, and its position in gojūon tables is ま行い段 (MA-gyō, I-dan; “row MA, section I”).

Related terms

• For a list of words starting with み (mi) see: Special:Allpages/み

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]