Mi (kana)

For the Chinese character, see 三.

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
	mii, myi 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
	myaa myā	みゃあ, みゃぁ みゃー, みゃ～	ミャア, ミャァ ミャー, ミャ～
	myu	みゅ	ミュ
	myuu myū	みゅう, みゅぅ みゅー, みゅ～	ミュウ, ミュゥ ミュー, ミュ～
	myo	みょ	ミョ
	myou myoo myō	みょう, みょぅ みょお, みょぉ みょー, みょ～	ミョウ, ミョゥ ミョオ, ミョォ ミョー, ミョ～

Other additional forms
Form (my-) Rōmaji Hiragana Katakana (mya) (みゃ) (ミャ) (myi) (みぃ) (ミィ) (myu) (みゅ) (ミュ) mye myei myee myē みぇ みぇい, みぇぃ みぇえ みぇー ミェ ミェイ, ミェィ ミェエ ミェー (myo) (みょ) (ミョ)

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 morae 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	dec	hex	dec	hex	dec	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.