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U+3061, ち
HIRAGANA LETTER TI

[U+3060]
Hiragana
[U+3062]

Japanese

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Stroke order
2 strokes

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [t͡ɕi]
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Etymology 1

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

Syllable

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(chi

  1. The hiragana syllable (chi). Its equivalent in katakana is (chi). It is the seventeenth syllable in the gojūon order; its position is (ta-gyō i-dan, row ta, section i).
Derived terms
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See also
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Etymology 2

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For pronunciation and definitions of – see the following entries.
1
[numeral] a thousand, 1000
3
[noun] blood
6
[noun] (archaic) milk
[noun] (archaic) breast
2
[noun] a house
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
2
[noun] wisdom
Alternative spelling
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
3
[suffix] (obsolete) attaches to place names, indicating a road to that place
Alternative spelling
(This term, (chi), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)
For a list of all kanji read as , see Category:Japanese kanji read as ち.)

(The following entries are uncreated: , , , , , , , , , , , , .)