ဤ

ဤ U+1024, ဤ MYANMAR LETTER II ← ဣ [U+1023] Myanmar ဥ → [U+1025]

Burmese

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: အီ
• IPA^(key): /ʔì/
• Romanization: MLCTS: i • ALA-LC: ī • BGN/PCGN: i • Okell: i

Etymology 1

Letter

ဤ • (i)

1. Independent vowel II of the Burmese alphabet.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(h)i ~ *(h)aj (“this; here”). Cognate with Chinese 伊 (yī). Compare Korean 이 (i, “this”).

Determiner

ဤ • (i)

1. (literary) this