じ

See also: し, レ, and 乚

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

• (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, こ𛄲 (𛄲)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, 𛀆, ゆゅ, 𛀁, よょ, らら゚, りり゚, るる゚, れれ゚, ろろ゚, わゎわ゙, ゐ𛅐 (𛅐)ゐ゙, 𛄟 (𛄟), ゑ𛅑 (𛅑)ゑ゙, を𛅒 (𛅒)を゙, ん, 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] (go) territory

【寺】2 [suffix] (chiefly Buddhism) 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 the hiragana spelling of the above terms.) For a list of all kanji read as じ, see Category:Japanese kanji read as じ.)

Etymology 4

Suffix

じ • (-ji) 

1. (Classical Japanese, jodōshi) 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.