ち

See also: 5, ら, さ, ざ, ぢ, 𠀁, and ㄘ

ち U+3061, ち HIRAGANA LETTER TI ← だ [U+3060] Hiragana ぢ → [U+3062]

Japanese

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t͡ɕi]

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Etymology 1

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

Syllable

ち (romaji chi)

1. The hiragana syllable ち (chi). Its equivalent in katakana is チ (chi). It is the seventeenth syllable in the gojūon order; its position is た行い段 (ta-gyō i-dan, “row ta, section i”).

Derived terms

• ちゃ (cha), ちゅ (chu), ちょ (cho)
• ぢ (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, ゐ𛅐ゐ゙, 𛄟, ゑ𛅑ゑ゙, を𛅒を゙, ん, ー, ゝ, ゞ, ゟ

Etymology 2

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

【千】1 [numeral] a thousand, 1000

【血】3 [noun] blood

【乳】6 [noun] (archaic) milk [noun] (archaic) breast

【家】2 [noun] a house

【地】2 [noun] earth, land, ground [noun] a place, a region, a piece of land [noun] territory, dominion [noun] (of a crate, etc.) the bottom [noun] (printing, of a page) the bottom margin [suffix] place, area

【知】2 [noun] wisdom

【痴】S [noun] foolishness, stupidity [noun] (Buddhism) ignorance, one of the three roots of the vice dharmas [affix] foolish, stupid [affix] senseless, mad [affix] craze, obsession

【路】3 [suffix] (obsolete) attaches to place names, indicating a road to that place Alternative spelling 道

(This term, ち, is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.) For a list of all kanji read as ち, see Category:Japanese kanji read as ち.)

(The following entries are uncreated: 日, 個, 箇, 父, 茅, 鉤, 鈎, 霊, 治, 智, 笞, 徴, 道.)