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hi
hiragana katakana
transliteration	hi
translit. with dakuten	bi
translit. with handakuten	pi
hiragana origin	比
katakana origin	比
Man'yōgana	比 必 卑 賓 日 氷 飯 負 嬪 臂 避 匱 非 悲 斐 火 肥 飛 樋 干 乾 彼 被 秘
Voiced Man'yōgana	婢 鼻 弥 備 肥 飛 乾 眉 媚
spelling kana	飛行機のヒ Hikōki no "hi"
unicode	U+3072, U+30D2
braille
Note: This mora was historically pronounced as "pi" with one of two different vowel sounds, which later merged.

ひ, in hiragana, or ヒ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. Both can be written in two strokes, sometimes one for hiragana, and both are phonemically /hi/ although for phonological reasons, the actual pronunciation is [çi] . The pronunciation of the voiceless palatal fricative is similar to that of the English word hue for some speakers.

Stroke order

Other communicative representations

Japanese Navy Signal Flag	Japanese semaphore	Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling)	Braille dots-1236 Japanese Braille

• Full Braille representation

ひ / ヒ in Japanese Braille						H/B/P + Yōon braille
ひ / ヒ hi	び / ビ bi	ぴ / ピ pi	ひい / ヒー hī	びい / ビー bī	ぴい / ピー pī	ひゃ / ヒャ hya	びゃ / ビャ bya	ぴゃ / ピャ pya	ひゃあ / ヒャー hyā	びゃあ / ビャー byā	ぴゃあ / ピャー pyā
H/B/P + Yōon braille
ひゅ / ヒュ hyu	びゅ / ビュ byu	ぴゅ / ピュ pyu	ひゅう / ヒュー hyū	びゅう / ビュー byū	ぴゅう / ピュー pyū	ひょ / ヒョ hyo	びょ / ビョ byo	ぴょ / ピョ pyo	ひょう / ヒョー hyō	びょう / ビョー byō	ぴょう / ピョー pyō

• Computer encodings

Use in the Ainu language

In the Sakhalin dialect of the Ainu language, ヒ can be written as small ㇶ to represent a final h sound after an i sound (イㇶ ih). Along with other extended katakana, this was developed to represent sounds in Ainu that are not present in standard Japanese.

References

1. ^ Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) . "Shift-JIS to Unicode".
2. Project X0213 (2009-05-03). "Shift_JIS-2004 (JIS X 0213:2004 Appendix 1) vs Unicode mapping table".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
3. ^ Unicode Consortium; IBM. "EUC-JP-2007". International Components for Unicode.
4. Project X0213 (2009-05-03). "EUC-JIS-2004 (JIS X 0213:2004 Appendix 3) vs Unicode mapping table".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
5. ^ Standardization Administration of China (SAC) (2005-11-18). GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set.
6. ^ Unicode Consortium; IBM. "IBM-970". International Components for Unicode.
7. ^ Steele, Shawn (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". Microsoft / Unicode Consortium.
8. ^ Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) . "BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".
9. ^ van Kesteren, Anne. "big5". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.

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