き

Hiragana	Katakana
Transliteration:	ki
Hiragana Man'yōgana:	機
Katakana Man'yōgana:	機
Unicode:	U+304D
kana - gojūon n wa ra ya ma ha na ta sa ka a tsu wi ri mi hi ni chi shi ki i ゛ ru yu mu fu nu tsu su ku u ー we re me he ne te se ke e wo ro yo mo ho no to so ko o

き, in hiragana, キ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. Both represent (IPA) /ki/ and are derived from a simplification of the 幾 kanji. The hiragana character き, like さ, is drawn with the lower line separated when writing (as in the picture to the right.) When printing, the lines are connected.

A dakuten may be added to the character; this transforms it into ぎ in hiragana, ギ in katakana, and gi in Romaji. The phonetic value also changes, to /gi/. A handakuten (゜) does not occur with ki in normal Japanese text, but it may be used by linguists to indicate a nasal pronunciation (IPA: [ŋi]) that occurs in some dialects.

[edit] Stroke order

Stroke order in writing き

Stroke order in writing キ

[edit] Other communicative representations

Look up き, ぎ, キ, ギ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

In Japanese Braille, き or キ is represented as:

The Wabun code for き or キ is －・－・・.

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