Ki (kana)

Infobox_kana
Hiragana

Katakana

Transliteration = ki
Hiragana Manyogana = 機
Katakana Manyogana = 機
Unicode = U+304D
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き, in hiragana, キ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. Both represent (IPA) IPA|/ki/ and are derived from a simplification of the 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 IPA|/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: IPA| [ŋi] ) that occurs in some dialects.

troke order

Other communicative representations

In Japanese Braille, き or キ is represented as:

The Wabun code for き or キ is －・－・・.