Ni (kana)
に, in hiragana, or ニ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. The hiragana is written in three strokes, while the katakana in two. Both represent /ni/ although for phonological reasons, the actual pronunciation is [ɲi].
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| transliteration | ni | ||
| hiragana origin | 仁 | ||
| katakana origin | 仁 | ||
| Man'yōgana | 二 人 日 仁 爾 迩 尼 耳 柔 丹 荷 似 煮 煎 | ||
| spelling kana | 日本のニ (Nippon no ni) | ||
| unicode | U+306B, U+30CB | ||
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Notably, the katakana (ニ) is functionally identical to the kanji for two (二), pronounced the same way, and written similarly.
に is used as a particle, with a similar function to the English "to", "in", "at", or "by":
トン
"Ton
は、
wa,
フランス
Furansu
に
ni
行きました。
ikimashita."
"Ton went to France."
パン
"Pan
は、
wa,
トン
Ton
に
ni
上げました。
agemashita."
"Bread was given "to" Ton"
六時
"Rokuji
に
ni
しました。
shimashita."
"(I) did it at 6 o'clock."
| Form | Rōmaji | Hiragana | Katakana |
|---|---|---|---|
| Normal n- (な行 na-gyō) |
ni | に | ニ |
| nii, nyi nī |
にい, にぃ にー |
ニイ, ニィ ニー | |
| Addition yōon ny- (にゃ行 nya-gyō) |
nya | にゃ | ニャ |
| nyaa nyā |
にゃあ, にゃぁ にゃー |
ニャア, ニャァ ニャー | |
| nyu | にゅ | ニュ | |
| nyuu nyū |
にゅう, にゅぅ にゅー |
ニュウ, ニュゥ ニュー | |
| nyo | にょ | ニョ | |
| nyou nyoo nyō |
にょう, にょぅ にょお, にょぉ にょー |
ニョウ, ニョゥ ニョオ, ニョォ ニョー |
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Stroke order
 Stroke order in writing に |
 Stroke order in writing ニ |
The hiragana に is made with three strokes:
- A vertical stroke from top to bottom.
- A short, horizontal stroke to the upper right of the first stroke, going from left to right.
- Another short, horizontal stroke at the bottom right of the first stroke, going from left to right.
The katakana ニ is made with two strokes:
- At the top, a horizontal stroke from left to right.
- Another, longer horizontal stroke under the first stroke
Other communicative representations
| Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code |
| 日本のニ Nippon no "Ni" |
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| Japanese Navy Signal Flag | Japanese semaphore | Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling) | Braille dots-123 Japanese Braille |
- Full Braille representation
| に / ニ in Japanese Braille | N + Yōon braille | ||||||
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| に / ニ ni | にい / ニー nī | にゃ / ニャ nya | にゃあ / ニャー nyā | にゅ / ニュ nyu | にゅう / ニュー nyū | にょ / ニョ nyo | にょう / ニョー nyō |
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| Preview | に | ニ | ﾆ | ㋥ | ||||
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| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER NI | KATAKANA LETTER NI | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER NI | CIRCLED KATAKANA NI | ||||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 12395 | U+306B | 12491 | U+30CB | 65414 | U+FF86 | 13029 | U+32E5 |
| UTF-8 | 227 129 171 | E3 81 AB | 227 131 139 | E3 83 8B | 239 190 134 | EF BE 86 | 227 139 165 | E3 8B A5 |
| Numeric character reference | に | に | ニ | ニ | ﾆ | ﾆ | ㋥ | ㋥ |
| Shift JIS[1] | 130 201 | 82 C9 | 131 106 | 83 6A | 198 | C6 | ||
| EUC-JP[2] | 164 203 | A4 CB | 165 203 | A5 CB | 142 198 | 8E C6 | ||
| GB 18030[3] | 164 203 | A4 CB | 165 203 | A5 CB | 132 49 153 52 | 84 31 99 34 | ||
| EUC-KR[4] / UHC[5] | 170 203 | AA CB | 171 203 | AB CB | ||||
| Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[6] | 198 207 | C6 CF | 199 99 | C7 63 | ||||
| Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[7] | 199 82 | C7 52 | 199 199 | C7 C7 | ||||
See also
References
Handbook of Japanese Grammar - Masahiro Tanimori (Tuttle 1994)
- Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-03-08]. "Shift-JIS to Unicode".
- Unicode Consortium; IBM. "EUC-JP-2007". International Components for Unicode.
- Standardization Administration of China (SAC) (2005-11-18). GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set.
- Unicode Consortium; IBM. "IBM-970". International Components for Unicode.
- Steele, Shawn (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". Microsoft / Unicode Consortium.
- Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-02-11]. "BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".
- van Kesteren, Anne. "big5". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.