Shi (kana)

shi
Hiragana Katakana
Transliteration	shi, si
with dakuten	ji, zi
Hiragana origin	之
Katakana origin	之
Spelling kana	新聞のシ (Shinbun no "shi")
Morse code	－－・－・
Braille
Unicode	U+3057, U+30B7
Semaphore
kana gojūon
wa ra ya ma ha na ta sa ka a wi ri mi hi ni chi shi ki i n ru yu mu fu nu tsu su ku u we re me he ne te se ke e wo ro yo mo ho no to so ko o
sokuon dakuten chōonpu

し, in hiragana, or シ in katakana, and the variant form ㋛, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. Both represent the phoneme /si/ although for phonological reasons, the actual pronunciation is [ɕi] ( listen), like "cie" in word species. The shapes of these kana have origins in the character 之. The katakana form has become increasingly popular as an emoticon in the Western world due to its resemblance to a smiling face.^{[citation needed]}

This character may be combined with a dakuten, forming じ in hiragana, ジ in katakana, and ji in Hepburn romanization; the pronunciation becomes /zi/ (phonetically [d͡ʑi] or [ʑi] in the middle of words).

The dakuten form of this character is used when transliterating "di" occasionally, as opposed to チ's dakuten form; for example, Aladdin is written as アラジン Arajin, and radio is written as ラジオ.

In the Ainu language, シ is used to represent the ʃi sound. It can also be written as a small ㇱ to represent a final s sound, pronounced ɕ.

Stroke order

Stroke order in writing Hiragana し

Stroke order in writing Katakana シ

Other Representations

• Computer encodings

し / シ in Japanese Braille				Sh/J + Yōon braille
し / シ shi	じ / ジ ji	しい / シー shī	じい / ジー jī	しゃ / シャ sha	じゃ / ジャ ja	しゃあ / シャー shā	じゃあ / ジャー jā
Sh/J + Yōon braille
しゅ / シュ shu	じゅ / ジュ ju	しゅう / シュー shū	じゅう / ジュー jū	しょ / ショ sho	じょ / ジョ jo	しょう / ショー shō	じょう / ジョー jō

Look up し, じ, シ, or ジ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.