に, in hiragana, or ニ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. The hiragana is written in three strokes, while the katakana in two. Both represent /ni/ although for phonological reasons, the actual pronunciation is [ɲi].
ni | |||
---|---|---|---|
| |||
transliteration | ni | ||
hiragana origin | 仁 | ||
katakana origin | 仁 | ||
Man'yōgana | 二 人 日 仁 爾 迩 尼 耳 柔 丹 荷 似 煮 煎 | ||
spelling kana | 日本のニ (Nippon no ni) | ||
unicode | U+306B, U+30CB | ||
braille |
Notably, the katakana (ニ) is functionally identical to the kanji for two (二), pronounced the same way, and written similarly.
に is used as a particle, with a similar function to the English "to", "in", "at", or "by":
トン
"Ton
は、
wa,
フランス
Furansu
に
ni
行きました。
ikimashita."
"Ton went to France."
パン
"Pan
は、
wa,
トン
Ton
に
ni
上げました。
agemashita."
"Bread was given 'to' Ton"
六時
"Rokuji
に
ni
しました。
shimashita."
"(I) did it at 6 o'clock."
Stroke order
The hiragana に is made with three strokes:
- A vertical stroke from top to bottom.
- A short, horizontal stroke to the upper right of the first stroke, going from left to right.
- Another short, horizontal stroke at the bottom right of the first stroke, going from left to right.
The katakana ニ is made with two strokes:
- At the top, a horizontal stroke from left to right.
- Another, longer horizontal stroke under the first stroke
Other communicative representations
Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code |
日本のニ Nippon no "Ni" |
Japanese Navy Signal Flag | Japanese semaphore | Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling) | Braille dots-123 Japanese Braille |
- Full Braille representation
に / ニ in Japanese Braille | N + Yōon braille | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
に / ニ ni | にい / ニー nī | にゃ / ニャ nya | にゃあ / ニャー nyā | にゅ / ニュ nyu | にゅう / ニュー nyū | にょ / ニョ nyo | にょう / ニョー nyō |
Preview | に | ニ | ニ | ㋥ | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER NI | KATAKANA LETTER NI | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER NI | CIRCLED KATAKANA NI | ||||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 12395 | U+306B | 12491 | U+30CB | 65414 | U+FF86 | 13029 | U+32E5 |
UTF-8 | 227 129 171 | E3 81 AB | 227 131 139 | E3 83 8B | 239 190 134 | EF BE 86 | 227 139 165 | E3 8B A5 |
Numeric character reference | に | に | ニ | ニ | ニ | ニ | ㋥ | ㋥ |
Shift JIS[1] | 130 201 | 82 C9 | 131 106 | 83 6A | 198 | C6 | ||
EUC-JP[2] | 164 203 | A4 CB | 165 203 | A5 CB | 142 198 | 8E C6 | ||
GB 18030[3] | 164 203 | A4 CB | 165 203 | A5 CB | 132 49 153 52 | 84 31 99 34 | ||
EUC-KR[4] / UHC[5] | 170 203 | AA CB | 171 203 | AB CB | ||||
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[6] | 198 207 | C6 CF | 199 99 | C7 63 | ||||
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[7] | 199 82 | C7 52 | 199 199 | C7 C7 |
See also
References
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