ひ

Character	ひ
Unicode name	HIRAGANA LETTER HI
Codepoint	U+3072

See also: び and ぴ

Japanese

Stroke order

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [çi]

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Syllable

ひ (Hepburn romanization hi)

1. The hiragana syllable ひ (hi), whose equivalent in katakana is ヒ (hi). It is the twenty-seventh syllable of the gojūon order, and its position in gojūon tables is は行い段 (HA-gyō, I-dan; “row HA, section I”).

Related terms

• For a list of words starting with ひ (hi) see: Special:Allpages/ひ

Descendants

• び (bi)
• ぴ (pi)

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, ゆゅ, よょ, ら, り, る, れ, ろ, わゎ, ゐ, ゑ, を, ん, ー, ゝ, ゞ, ゟ

Noun

ひ (romaji hi)

1. 日: day, sunshine
2. 火: fire
3. 非: fault
4. 比: fraction, ratio