Ki (kana)

き, in hiragana, キ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. Both represent [ki] and are derived from a simplification of the 幾 kanji. The hiragana character き, like さ, is drawn with the lower line either connected or disconnected.

ki
hiragana katakana
transliteration	ki き
translit. with dakuten	gi　ぎ
translit. with handakuten	(ngi)
hiragana origin	幾
katakana origin	幾
Man'yōgana	支 伎 岐 企 棄 寸 吉 杵 來 貴 紀 記 奇 寄 忌 幾 木 城
Voiced Man'yōgana	伎 祇 芸 岐 儀 蟻 疑 宜 義 擬
spelling kana	切手のキ (Kitte no "ki")
Note: These Man'yōgana originally represented syllables with one of two different vowel sounds, which merged in later pronunciation

A dakuten may be added to the character; this transforms it into ぎ in hiragana, ギ in katakana, and gi in Hepburn romanization. The phonetic value also changes, to [gi] in initial, and varying between [ŋi] and [ɣi] in the middle of words.

A handakuten (゜) does not occur with ki in normal Japanese text, but it may be used by linguists to indicate a nasal pronunciation [ŋi].

Form	Rōmaji	Hiragana	Katakana
Normal k- (か行 ka-gyō)	ki	き	キ
	kī	きい きー	キイ キー
Addition yōon ky- (きゃ行 kya-gyō)	kya	きゃ	キャ
	kyā	きゃあ きゃー	キャア キャー
	kyu	きゅ	キュ
	kyū	きゅう きゅー	キュウ キュー
	kyo	きょ	キョ
	kyō	きょう きょお きょー	キョウ キョオ キョー
Addition dakuten g- (が行 ga-gyō)	gi	ぎ	ギ
	gī	ぎい ぎー	ギイ ギー
Addition yōon and dakuten gy- (ぎゃ行 gya-gyō)	gya	ぎゃ	ギャ
	gyā	ぎゃあ ぎゃー	ギャア ギャー
	gyu	ぎゅ	ギュ
	gyū	ぎゅう ぎゅー	ギュウ ギュー
	gyo	ぎょ	ギョ
	gyō	ぎょう ぎょお ぎょー	ギョウ ギョオ ギョー

Other additional forms
Form A (ky-) Romaji ロマジ Hiragana　ひらがな Katakanaカタカナ kyi きぃ キィ kye きぇ キェ	Form B (gy-) Romaji Hiragana Katakana gyi ぎぃ ギィ gye ぎぇ ギェ

Stroke order

Stroke order in writing き 3, 4

Stroke order in writing キ 3

Stroke order in writing き

Stroke order in writing キ

Other communicative representations

Japanese radiotelephony alphabet	Wabun code
切手のキ Kitte no "Ki"	▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄

Japanese Navy Signal Flag	Japanese semaphore	Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling)	Braille dots-126 Japanese Braille

• Full Braille representation

き / キ in Japanese Braille				K + Yōon braille
き / キ ki	ぎ / ギ gi	きい / キー kī	ぎい / ギー gī	きゃ / キャ kya	ぎゃ / ギャ gya	きゃあ / キャー kyā	ぎゃあ / ギャー gyā
K + Yōon braille
きゅ / キュ kyu	ぎゅ / ギュ gyu	きゅう / キュー kyū	ぎゅう / ギュー gyū	きょ / キョ kyo	ぎょ / ギョ gyo	きょう / キョー kyō	ぎょう / ギョー gyō
	ku	ku	ku	ko	ko	ko	ko

• Computer encodings

Character information

Preview	き		キ		ｷ		ぎ		ギ
Unicode name	HIRAGANA LETTER KI		KATAKANA LETTER KI		HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER KI		HIRAGANA LETTER GI		KATAKANA LETTER GI
Encodings	decimal	hex	decimal	hex	decimal	hex	decimal	hex	decimal	hex
Unicode	12365	U+304D	12461	U+30AD	65399	U+FF77	12366	U+304E	12462	U+30AE
UTF-8	227 129 141	E3 81 8D	227 130 173	E3 82 AD	239 189 183	EF BD B7	227 129 142	E3 81 8E	227 130 174	E3 82 AE
Numeric character reference	き	き	キ	キ	ｷ	ｷ	ぎ	ぎ	ギ	ギ
Shift JIS[1]	130 171	82 AB	131 76	83 4C	183	B7	130 172	82 AC	131 77	83 4D
EUC-JP[2]	164 173	A4 AD	165 173	A5 AD	142 183	8E B7	164 174	A4 AE	165 174	A5 AE
GB 18030[3]	164 173	A4 AD	165 173	A5 AD	132 49 151 57	84 31 97 39	164 174	A4 AE	165 174	A5 AE
EUC-KR[4] / UHC[5]	170 173	AA AD	171 173	AB AD			170 174	AA AE	171 174	AB AE
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[6]	198 177	C6 B1	199 69	C7 45			198 178	C6 B2	199 70	C7 46
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[7]	198 243	C6 F3	199 169	C7 A9			198 244	C6 F4	199 170	C7 AA

Character information

Preview	き゚		キ゚		㋖
Unicode name	HIRAGANA LETTER BIDAKUON NGI[8]		KATAKANA LETTER BIDAKUON NGI[8]		CIRCLED KATAKANA KI
Encodings	decimal	hex	decimal	hex	decimal	hex
Unicode	12365 12442	U+304D+309A	12461 12442	U+30AD+309A	13014	U+32D6
UTF-8	227 129 141 227 130 154	E3 81 8D E3 82 9A	227 130 173 227 130 154	E3 82 AD E3 82 9A	227 139 150	E3 8B 96
Numeric character reference	き゚	き゚	キ゚	キ゚	㋖	㋖
Shift JIS-2004[9]	130 246	82 F6	131 152	83 98
EUC-JIS-2004[10]	164 248	A4 F8	165 248	A5 F8
GB 18030[3]					129 57 210 50	81 39 D2 32

References

1. Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-03-08]. "Shift-JIS to Unicode".
2. Unicode Consortium; IBM. "EUC-JP-2007". International Components for Unicode.
3. Standardization Administration of China (SAC) (2005-11-18). GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set.
4. Unicode Consortium; IBM. "IBM-970". International Components for Unicode.
5. Steele, Shawn (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". Microsoft / Unicode Consortium.
6. Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-02-11]. "BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".
7. van Kesteren, Anne. "big5". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.
8. Unicode Consortium. "Unicode Named Character Sequences". Unicode Character Database.
9. Project X0213 (2009-05-03). "Shift_JIS-2004 (JIS X 0213:2004 Appendix 1) vs Unicode mapping table".
10. Project X0213 (2009-05-03). "EUC-JIS-2004 (JIS X 0213:2004 Appendix 3) vs Unicode mapping table".

See also

• Gi (kana)