じ

し, in hiragana, or シ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one Mora (linguistics), mora. Both represent the phonemes although for Japanese phonology, phonological reasons, the actual pronunciation is . 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.

This character may be combined with a dakuten, forming じ in hiragana, ジ in katakana, and ''ji'' in Hepburn romanization; the pronunciation becomes (phonetically or 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#Writing, Ainu language, シ is used to represent the sound. It can also be written as a small ㇱ to represent a final s sound, pronounced .

Stroke order

Other communicative representations

* Full Braille representation

* Character encoding, Computer encodings

References

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Specific kana