Mi (kana)

み, in hiragana, or ミ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. The hiragana is written in two strokes, while the katakana is made in three. Both represent [mi].

Form	Rōmaji	Hiragana	Katakana
Normal m- (ま行 ma-gyō)	Mi	み	ミ
	Mī	みい, みぃ みー, み～	ミイ, ミィ ミー, ミ～
Addition yōon my- (みゃ行 mya-gyō)	Mya	みゃ	ミャ
	Myā	みゃあ みゃー, みゃ～	ミャア ミャー, ミャ～
	Myu	みゅ	ミュ
	Myū	みゅう みゅー, みゅ～	ミュウ ミュー, ミュ～
	Myo	みょ	ミョ
	Myō	みょう みょお みょー, みょ～	ミョウ ミョオ ミョー, ミョ～

Other additional forms
Form (my-) Rōmaji Hiragana Katakana Mye みぇ ミェ

mi
hiragana katakana
transliteration	mi
hiragana origin	美
katakana origin	三
Man'yōgana	民 彌 美 三 水 見 視 御 未 味 尾 微 身 実 箕
spelling kana	三笠のミ Mikasa no "mi"
unicode	U+307F, U+30DF
braille
Note: These Man'yōgana originally represented syllables with one of two different vowel sounds, which merged in later pronunciation

Stroke order

Stroke order in writing み

Stroke order in writing ミ

Stroke order in writing み

Stroke order in writing ミ

Other communicative representations

Japanese radiotelephony alphabet	Wabun code
三笠のミ Mikasa no "Mi"	▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄

Japanese Navy Signal Flag	Japanese semaphore	Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling)	Braille dots-12356 Japanese Braille

• Full Braille representation

み / ミ in Japanese Braille		M + Yōon braille
み / ミ mi	みい / ミー mī	みゃ / ミャ mya	みゃあ / ミャー myā	みゅ / ミュ myu	みゅう / ミュー myū	みょ / ミョ myo	みょう / ミョー myō

• Computer encodings

Character information

Preview	み		ミ		ﾐ		㋯
Unicode name	HIRAGANA LETTER MI		KATAKANA LETTER MI		HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER MI		CIRCLED KATAKANA MI
Encodings	decimal	hex	decimal	hex	decimal	hex	decimal	hex
Unicode	12415	U+307F	12511	U+30DF	65424	U+FF90	13039	U+32EF
UTF-8	227 129 191	E3 81 BF	227 131 159	E3 83 9F	239 190 144	EF BE 90	227 139 175	E3 8B AF
Numeric character reference	み	み	ミ	ミ	ﾐ	ﾐ	㋯	㋯
Shift JIS[1]	130 221	82 DD	131 126	83 7E	208	D0
EUC-JP[2]	164 223	A4 DF	165 223	A5 DF	142 208	8E D0
GB 18030[3]	164 223	A4 DF	165 223	A5 DF	132 49 154 52	84 31 9A 34
EUC-KR[4] / UHC[5]	170 223	AA DF	171 223	AB DF
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[6]	198 227	C6 E3	199 119	C7 77
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[7]	199 102	C7 66	199 219	C7 DB

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.