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Japanese

Stroke order
2 strokes

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [t͡ɕi]
  • Audio:(file)

Etymology 1

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

Syllable

(romaji 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
See also

Etymology 2

Counter

(-chi

  1. :
  2. , :

Noun

(chi

  1. : thousand
  2. : term of respect for a boy
  3. : blood
  4. : milk; breast
  5. : cogon grass
  6. : house
  7. , : fishhook
  8. : spiritual power
  9. : ground, place
  10. :
  11. , : wisdom
  12. :
  13. : foolishness, foolish person; (Buddhism) ignorance, one of the three roots of the vice dharmas
  14. :

Suffix

(-chi

  1. , : (obsolete) attaches to place names, indicating a road to that place