Chi (kana)


ち, in hiragana, or チ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. Both are phonemically although for phonological reasons, the actual pronunciation is.
The kanji for one thousand, appears similar to チ, and at one time they were related, but today チ is used as phonetic, while the kanji carries an entirely unrelated meaning.
Many onomatopoeic words beginning with ち pertain to things that are small or quick.
The dakuten forms ぢ, ヂ, pronounced the same as the dakuten forms of the shi kana in most dialects, are uncommon. They are primarily used for indicating a voiced consonant in the middle of a compound word, and they can never begin a word, although some people will write the word for hemorrhoids as ぢ for emphasis. The dakuten form of the shi character is sometimes used when transliterating "di", 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. More common, though, is to use ディ instead, such as ディオン to translate the name Dion.
In the Ainu language, チ by itself is pronounced, and can be combined with the katakana ヤ, ユ, エ, and ヨ to write the other sounds as well as sounds. The combination チェ, is interchangeable with セ゚.

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