き, in
hiragana, キ in
katakana, ki in
Romaji with
Hepburn romanisation (
IPA: ), is one of the Japanese
kana, which each represent one
mora.Both hiragana き and katakana キ are derived from a simplification of the
kanji. The hiragana character き, like
さ, is to be 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 . A
handakuten (゜) does not occur with ki in normal Japanese text, but it may be used by linguists to indicate a
nasal pronunciation (
IPA: ) that occurs in some dialects.
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