き

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Character	き
Unicode name	HIRAGANA LETTER KI
Codepoint	U+304D

See also さ

Japanese

Stroke order

Etymology

Derived in the Heian period from writing the man'yōgana kanji 機 or 幾 in the cursive sōsho style.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ki]

Syllable

き (Hepburn romanization ki)

1. The hiragana syllable き (ki), whose equivalent in katakana is キ (ki). It is the seventh syllable of the gojūon order, and its position in gojūon tables is か行い段 (KA-gyō, I-dan; “row KA, section I”).

Related terms

• For a list of words starting with き (ki) see: Special:Allpages/き

Derived terms

ぎ (gi)

See also

• (Hiragana) 平仮名; あぁ, いぃ, うぅゔ, えぇ, おぉ, かゕが, きぎ, くぐ, けゖげ, こご, さざ, しじ, すず, せぜ, そぞ, ただ, ちぢ, つっづ, てで, とど, な, に, ぬ, ね, の, はばぱ, ひびぴ, ふぶぷ, へべぺ, ほぼぽ, ま, み, む, め, も, やゃ, ゆゅ, よょ, ら, り, る, れ, ろ, わゎ, ゐ, ゑ, を, ん, ー, ゝ, ゞ, ゟ

Kanji reading

き (romaji ki)

On-reading of:

• 貴: noble, precious
• 機: machine, moment, chance
• 記: record
• 希: hope, expect
• 姫: beauty
• 忌: anniversary of a person's death
• 季: season
• 几: small table
• 幾: how many, some
• 紀
• 黄
• 木
• 喜
• 㐂
• 気
• 期
• 器
• 鬼
• 樹
• 旣

Kun-reading of:

• 黄： yellow

Noun

き (romaji ki)

1. 木: tree
2. 気: air, spirit

Derived terms

• 気になる (きになる, ki ni naru)

Suffix

き (romaji -ki)

1. 器: device; container
2. 忌: anniversary of one's death
3. 記: history, account, record
4. 期: time, period; geological age

Counter

き (romaji -ki)

1. 騎: horsemen
2. 機: aircraft; lives in video games
3. 基: installed or mounted objects such as gravestones