I (kana)

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The hiragana い.

The katakana イ.

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

い in hiragana or イ in katakana (romanised i) is one of the Japanese kana that each respresent one mora. い is based on the sōsho style of the kanji character 以, and イ is from the radical(left part) of the kanji character 伊. In the modern Japanese system of alphabetical order, it is occupies the second position of the alphabet, between あ and う. Additionally, it is the first letter in Iroha, before ろ. In order to write the hiragana い, draw a curve, not entirely unlike a parenthesis, stroke upward from the bottom, and then draw a smaller, floating curve to the side. The Unicode for い is U+3044, and the Unicode for イ is U+30A4.

It is pronounced [i].

Form	Rōmaji	Hiragana	Katakana
Normal a/i/u/e/o (あ行 a-gyō)	i	い	イ
	ii ī	いい, いぃ いー	イイ, イィ イー

Other additional forms
Form (y-) (ya) (や) (ヤ) (yi) (い) (イ) (yu) (ゆ) (ユ) ye いぇ イェ (yo) (よ) (ヨ)

[edit] Variant forms

Scaled-down versions of the kana (ぃ, ィ) are used to express morae foreign to the Japanese language, such as フィ (fi).

[edit] Strokes

Stroke order in writing い

Stroke order in writing イ

[edit] Alternative forms

In Japanese Braille, い or イ is represented as:

●	－
●	－
－	－

The Morse code for い or イ, is ・－.

In Japanese phonetic alphabet, one would say "いろはのイ" (Iroha no I.)