じ

じ U+3058, じ HIRAGANA LETTER ZI Composition: し [U+3057] + ◌゙ [U+3099] ← し [U+3057] Hiragana す → [U+3059]

See also: し, レ, and 乚

Japanese

Stroke order

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [d͡ʑi], [ʑi]

Etymology 1

The hiragana character し (shi) with a dakuten (゛).

Syllable

じ (romaji ji)

1. The hiragana syllable じ (ji). Its equivalent in katakana is ジ (ji).

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

Etymology 2

Counter

じ (rōmaji -ji)

1. 時: hour, o'clock
2. 寺:
3. 次: number of times: an ordinal marker; number in a sequence, number of aspects or dimensions
4. 箇:

Noun

じ (rōmaji ji)

1. 柱:
2. 地: earth, dirt; fabric, cloth; territory
3. 字: letter, character
4. 侍:
5. 持:
6. 時:
7. 痔: hemorrhoids
8. 辞: speech

Pronoun

じ (rōmaji ji)

1. 児:

Suffix

じ (rōmaji -ji)

1. 路: a road, a street; attaches to place names, indicating a road to that place; attaches to a time duration, indicating a trip taking that length of time
2. 時: at the time of