ち

See also: 5, ら, さ, ざ, ぢ, 𠀁, and ㄘ

ち U+3061, ち
HIRAGANA LETTER TI
← だ
[U+3060] 		Hiragana ぢ →
[U+3062]

Japanese
Stroke order
2 strokes

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [t͡ɕi]
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Etymology 1

Derived in the Heian period from writing the man'yōgana kanji 知 in the cursive sōsho style.

Syllable

ち (romaji chi)

  1. The hiragana syllable ち (chi). Its equivalent in katakana is チ (chi). It is the seventeenth syllable in the gojūon order; its position is た行い段 (ta-gyō i-dan, “row ta, section i”).
Derived terms
See also

Etymology 2
For pronunciation and definitions of ち – see the following entries.
【千】1
[numeral] a thousand, 1000
【血】3
[noun] blood
【乳】6
[noun] (archaic) milk
[noun] (archaic) breast
【家】2
[noun] a house
【地】2
[noun] earth, land, ground
[noun] a place, a region, a piece of land
[noun] territory, dominion
[noun] (of a crate, etc.) the bottom
[noun] (printing, of a page) the bottom margin
[suffix] place, area
【知】2
[noun] wisdom
【痴】S
[noun] foolishness, stupidity
[noun] (Buddhism) ignorance, one of the three roots of the vice dharmas
[affix] foolish, stupid
[affix] senseless, mad
[affix] craze, obsession
【路】3
[suffix] (obsolete) attaches to place names, indicating a road to that place
Alternative spelling
道
(This term, ち, is an alternative spelling of the above terms.
For a list of all kanji read as ち, not just those used in Japanese terms, see Category:Japanese kanji read as ち.)

(The following entries are uncreated: 日, 個, 箇, 父, 茅, 鉤, 鈎, 霊, 治, 智, 笞, 徴, 道.)

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