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Ni (kana) - Wikipedia

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hiragana

katakana

hiragana origin

katakana origin

二人日仁爾迩尼耳柔丹荷似煮煎

日本のニ (Nippon no ni)

U+306B, U+30CB

wa	ra	ya	ma	ha	na	ta	sa	ka	a
wi	ri	(yi)	mi	hi	ni	chi	shi	ki	i
(wu)	ru	yu	mu	fu	nu	tsu	su	ku	u
we	re	(ye)	me	he	ne	te	se	ke	e
wo	ro	yo	mo	ho	no	to	so	ko	o
			n

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].

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

行きました。

ikimashita."

"Ton went to France."

パン

"Pan

は、

wa,

トン

Ton

に

上げました。

agemashita."

"Bread was given 'to' Ton"

六時

"Rokuji

に

しました。

shimashita."

"(I) did it at 6 o'clock."

Form	Rōmaji	Hiragana	Katakana
Normal n- (な行 na-gyō)	ni	に	ニ
Normal n- (な行 na-gyō)	nii, nyi nī	にい, にぃにー	ニイ, ニィニー
Addition yōon ny- (にゃ行 nya-gyō)	nya	にゃ	ニャ
	nyaa nyā	にゃあ, にゃぁにゃー	ニャア, ニャァニャー
	nyu	にゅ	ニュ
	nyuu nyū	にゅう, にゅぅにゅー	ニュウ, ニュゥニュー
	nyo	にょ	ニョ
	nyou nyoo nyō	にょう, にょぅにょお, にょぉにょー	ニョウ, ニョゥニョオ, ニョォニョー

Other additional forms

**Form (*ny-*)**
Rōmaji	Hiragana	Katakana
(nya)	(にゃ)	(ニャ)
(nyi)	(にぃ)	(ニィ)
(nyu)	(にゅ)	(ニュ)
nye nyei nyee nyē	にぇにぇい, にぇぃにぇえにぇー	ニェニェイ, ニェィニェエニェー
(nyo)	(にょ)	(ニョ)

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

Look up に or ニ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Computer encodings

Character information
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

References

Handbook of Japanese Grammar - Masahiro Tanimori (Tuttle 1994)

^ Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-03-08]. "Shift-JIS to Unicode".
^ Unicode Consortium; IBM. "EUC-JP-2007". International Components for Unicode.
^ Standardization Administration of China (SAC) (2005-11-18). GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set.
^ Unicode Consortium; IBM. "IBM-970". International Components for Unicode.
^ Steele, Shawn (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". Microsoft / Unicode Consortium.
^ Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-02-11]. "BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".
^ van Kesteren, Anne. "big5". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.

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