Shi (kana)
し, in hiragana, or シ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. Both represent the phonemes /si/ although for phonological reasons, the actual pronunciation is [ɕi] (listen). The shapes of these kana have origins in the character 之. The katakana form has become increasingly popular as an emoticon in the Western world due to its resemblance to a smiling face.
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transliteration | shi, si | ||
translit. with dakuten | ji, zi | ||
hiragana origin | 之 | ||
katakana origin | 之 | ||
Man'yōgana | 子 之 芝 水 四 司 詞 斯 志 思 信 偲 寺 侍 時 歌 詩 師 紫 新 旨 指 次 此 死 事 准 磯 為 | ||
Voiced Man'yōgana | 自 士 仕 司 時 尽 慈 耳 餌 児 弐 爾 | ||
spelling kana | 新聞のシ (Shinbun no "shi") |
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This character may be combined with a dakuten, forming じ in hiragana, ジ in katakana, and ji in Hepburn romanization; the pronunciation becomes /zi/ (phonetically [d͡ʑi] or [ʑi] in the middle of words).
The dakuten form of this character is used when transliterating "di" occasionally, as opposed to チ's dakuten form, or a de assigned to a small i; for example, Aladdin is written as アラジン Arajin, and radio is written as ラジオ.
In the Ainu language, シ is used to represent the ʃi sound. It can also be written as a small ㇱ to represent a final s sound, pronounced ɕ.
Form | Rōmaji | Hiragana | Katakana | |
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normal | sh/s- alone (さ行 sa-gyō) |
final sh (s) shi (si) shii (sii) shī (sī), shih (sih) |
し しい, しぃ しー |
ㇱ シ シイ, シィ シー |
sh/sy- and yōon (しゃ行 sha-gyō) |
sha (sya) shaa (syaa) shah (syah) shā (syā) |
しゃ しゃあ しゃー |
シャ シャア シャㇵ シャー | |
shu (syu) shuu (syuu) shū (syū), shuh (syuh) |
しゅ しゅう しゅー |
シュ シュウ シュー | ||
sho (syo) shou (syou) shoo (syoo) shō (syō), shoh (syoh) |
しょ しょう しょお しょー |
ショ ショウ ショオ ショー | ||
with dakuten | j/z- alone (ザ行 za-gyō) |
final -j (-z) ji (zi) jii (zii) jī (zī), jih (zih) |
じ じい, じぃ じー |
ジ ジイ, ジィ ジー |
j/zy- and yōon (じゃ行 ja-gyō) |
ja (zya) jaa (zyaa) jā (zyā), jah (zyah) |
じゃ じゃあ じゃー |
ジャ ジャア ジャー | |
ju (zyu) juu (zyuu) jū (zyū), juh (zyuh) |
じゅ じゅう じゅー |
ジュ ジュウ ジュー | ||
jo (zyo) jou (zyou) joo (zyoo) jō (zyō), joh (zyoh) |
じょ じょう じょお じょー |
ジョ ジョウ ジョオ ジョー |
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Stroke order
Other communicative representations
Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code |
新聞のシ Shinbun no "Shi" |
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Japanese Navy Signal Flag | Japanese semaphore | Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling) | Braille dots-1256 Japanese Braille |
- Full Braille representation
し / シ in Japanese Braille | Sh/J + Yōon braille | ||||||
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し / シ shi | じ / ジ ji | しい / シー shī | じい / ジー jī | しゃ / シャ sha | じゃ / ジャ ja | しゃあ / シャー shā | じゃあ / ジャー jā |
Sh/J + Yōon braille | |||||||
しゅ / シュ shu | じゅ / ジュ ju | しゅう / シュー shū | じゅう / ジュー jū | しょ / ショ sho | じょ / ジョ jo | しょう / ショー shō | じょう / ジョー jō |
Preview | し | シ | シ | ㋛ | ||||
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Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER SI | KATAKANA LETTER SI | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER SI | CIRCLED KATAKANA SI | ||||
Encodings | decimal | hex | decimal | hex | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
Unicode | 12375 | U+3057 | 12471 | U+30B7 | 65404 | U+FF7C | 13019 | U+32DB |
UTF-8 | 227 129 151 | E3 81 97 | 227 130 183 | E3 82 B7 | 239 189 188 | EF BD BC | 227 139 155 | E3 8B 9B |
Numeric character reference | し | し | シ | シ | シ | シ | ㋛ | ㋛ |
Shift JIS[1] | 130 181 | 82 B5 | 131 86 | 83 56 | 188 | BC | ||
EUC-JP[2] | 164 183 | A4 B7 | 165 183 | A5 B7 | 142 188 | 8E BC | ||
GB 18030[3] | 164 183 | A4 B7 | 165 183 | A5 B7 | 132 49 152 52 | 84 31 98 34 | ||
EUC-KR[4] / UHC[5] | 170 183 | AA B7 | 171 183 | AB B7 | ||||
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[6] | 198 187 | C6 BB | 199 79 | C7 4F | ||||
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[7] | 198 253 | C6 FD | 199 179 | C7 B3 |
Preview | ㇱ | じ | ジ | |||
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Unicode name | KATAKANA LETTER SMALL SI | HIRAGANA LETTER ZI | KATAKANA LETTER ZI | |||
Encodings | decimal | hex | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
Unicode | 12785 | U+31F1 | 12376 | U+3058 | 12472 | U+30B8 |
UTF-8 | 227 135 177 | E3 87 B1 | 227 129 152 | E3 81 98 | 227 130 184 | E3 82 B8 |
Numeric character reference | ㇱ | ㇱ | じ | じ | ジ | ジ |
Shift JIS (plain)[1] | 130 182 | 82 B6 | 131 87 | 83 57 | ||
Shift JIS-2004[8] | 131 237 | 83 ED | 130 182 | 82 B6 | 131 87 | 83 57 |
EUC-JP (plain)[2] | 164 184 | A4 B8 | 165 184 | A5 B8 | ||
EUC-JIS-2004[9] | 166 239 | A6 EF | 164 184 | A4 B8 | 165 184 | A5 B8 |
GB 18030[3] | 129 57 188 53 | 81 39 BC 35 | 164 184 | A4 B8 | 165 184 | A5 B8 |
EUC-KR[4] / UHC[5] | 170 184 | AA B8 | 171 184 | AB B8 | ||
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[6] | 198 188 | C6 BC | 199 80 | C7 50 | ||
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[7] | 198 254 | C6 FE | 199 180 | C7 B4 |
Look up し, じ, シ, or ジ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
References
- 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.
- Project X0213 (2009-05-03). "Shift_JIS-2004 (JIS X 0213:2004 Appendix 1) vs Unicode mapping table".
- Project X0213 (2009-05-03). "EUC-JIS-2004 (JIS X 0213:2004 Appendix 3) vs Unicode mapping table".