じ

See also: し, レ, and 乚

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

Japanese

Stroke order

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [d͡ʑi], [ʑi]

Syllable

じ (romaji ji)

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

See also

The Hiragana script
あぁ	かゕがか゚	さざさ゚	ただ	な	はばぱ	ま	やゃ	らら゚	わゎわ゙	ん
いぃ	きぎき゚	しじ	ちぢ	に	ひびぴ	み	𛀆	りり゚	ゐ𛅐ゐ゙
うぅゔ	くぐく゚	すず	つっづつ゚	ぬ	ふぶぷ	む	ゆゅ	るる゚	𛄟
えぇ	けゖげけ゚	せぜせ゚	てで	ね	へべぺ	め	𛀁	れれ゚	ゑ𛅑ゑ゙
おぉ	こごこ゚	そぞ	とどと゚	の	ほぼぽ	も	よょ	ろろ゚	を𛅒を゙
Additional symbols ーゝゞゟ

Etymology 2

Counter

じ • (-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 • (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 • (ji) 

1. 児:

Suffix

じ • (-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

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of じ – see the following entries.

【字】1 [noun] letter, character [noun] handwriting, penmanship [counter] letters, characters 【地】2 [noun] earth, dirt [noun] fabric, cloth [noun] (game of Go) territory 【寺】2 [suffix] (chiefly Buddhist) a temple 【時】2 [counter] hour, o’clock [suffix] at the time of... [affix] time, moment [affix] at that time, chance, occasion [affix] hour, hourly 【次】3 [counter] number of times: an ordinal marker [counter] number in a sequence, number of aspects or dimensions [noun] (rare) order, sequence [prefix] (attached to nouns) the next, secondary, vice- [prefix] (chemistry) hypo- (used to distinguish the oxidation levels of various acids) 【璽】S [noun] a seal or sigil carved into a jewel [noun] more specifically, such a seal belonging to the Chinese emperor of the Qin Dynasty or later, or belonging to the Japanese emperor [noun] 八尺瓊曲玉 (​Yasakani no Magatama), the jewel that is one of the three sacred treasures comprising the Imperial Regalia of Japan 【痔】H [noun] (pathology) hemorrhoids, piles

(This term, じ, is an alternative spelling of the above Sino-Japanese terms. For a list of all kanji read as じ, not just those used in Japanese terms, see Category:Japanese kanji read as じ.)

Etymology 4

Suffix

じ • (-ji) 

1. (Classical Japanese) Attaches to the 未然形 (mizenkei, “irrealis or incomplete form”) of verbs to form the negative conjectural/volitional, equivalent to modern まい (-mai).
   • Iroha

     浅(あさ)き夢(ゆめ)見(み)じ　酔(え)ひもせず

     Asaki yume miji / Ei mo sezu

     We shall not have superficial dreams / Nor be deluded.

Usage notes

This word is morphologically an inflectional suffix. It is classified as 助動詞 (jodōshi, “auxiliary verb”) in traditional Japanese grammar.