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U+3061, ち
HIRAGANA LETTER TI

Hiragana

Japanese

Stroke order
2 strokes

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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

Syllable

(chi

  1. The hiragana syllable (chi). Its equivalent in katakana is (chi). It is the seventeenth syllable in the gojūon order; its position is (ta-gyō i-dan, row ta, section i).
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of – see the following entries.
1
a thousand, 1000
3
blood
6
(archaic) milk
(archaic) breast
2
a house
2
earth, land, ground
a place, a region, a piece of land
territory, dominion
(of a crate, etc.) the bottom
(printing, of a page) the bottom margin
place, area
2
wisdom
Alternative spelling
S
foolishness, stupidity
(Buddhism) ignorance, one of the three roots of the vice dharmas
foolish, stupid
senseless, mad
craze, obsession
3
(obsolete) attaches to place names, indicating a road to that place
Alternative spelling
(This term, , is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)
For a list of all kanji read as , see Category:Japanese kanji read as ち.)

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