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Mi (kana)
Character of the Japanese writing system
Mi (hiragana: み, katakana: ミ) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. The hiragana is written in two strokes, while the katakana is made in three. Both represent [mi].
| Form | Rōmaji | Hiragana | Katakana |
|---|---|---|---|
| Normal m- (ま行 ma-gyō) |
mi | み | ミ |
| mii, myi mī |
みい, みぃ みー, み～ |
ミイ, ミィ ミー, ミ～ | |
| Addition yōon my- (みゃ行 mya-gyō) |
mya | みゃ | ミャ |
| myaa myā |
みゃあ, みゃぁ みゃー, みゃ～ |
ミャア, ミャァ ミャー, ミャ～ | |
| myu | みゅ | ミュ | |
| myuu myū |
みゅう, みゅぅ みゅー, みゅ～ |
ミュウ, ミュゥ ミュー, ミュ～ | |
| myo | みょ | ミョ | |
| myou myoo myō |
みょう, みょぅ みょお, みょぉ みょー, みょ～ |
ミョウ, ミョゥ ミョオ, ミョォ ミョー, ミョ～ |
01Other communicative representations
| Japanese radiotelephony alphabet | Wabun code |
| 三笠のミ Mikasa no "Mi" |
▄▄▄ ▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ |
| Japanese Navy Signal Flag | Japanese semaphore | Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling) | Braille dots-12356 Japanese Braille |
- Full Braille representation
| み / ミ in Japanese Braille | M + Yōon braille | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| み / ミ mi | みい / ミー mī | みゃ / ミャ mya | みゃあ / ミャー myā | みゅ / ミュ myu | みゅう / ミュー myū | みょ / ミョ myo | みょう / ミョー myō |
| Preview | み | ミ | ﾐ | ㋯ | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER MI | KATAKANA LETTER MI | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER MI | CIRCLED KATAKANA MI | ||||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 12415 | U+307F | 12511 | U+30DF | 65424 | U+FF90 | 13039 | U+32EF |
| UTF-8 | 227 129 191 | E3 81 BF | 227 131 159 | E3 83 9F | 239 190 144 | EF BE 90 | 227 139 175 | E3 8B AF |
| Numeric character reference | み | み | ミ | ミ | ﾐ | ﾐ | ㋯ | ㋯ |
| Shift JIS | 130 221 | 82 DD | 131 126 | 83 7E | 208 | D0 | ||
| EUC-JP | 164 223 | A4 DF | 165 223 | A5 DF | 142 208 | 8E D0 | ||
| GB 18030 | 164 223 | A4 DF | 165 223 | A5 DF | 132 49 154 52 | 84 31 9A 34 | ||
| EUC-KR / UHC | 170 223 | AA DF | 171 223 | AB DF | ||||
| Big5 (non-ETEN kana) | 198 227 | C6 E3 | 199 119 | C7 77 | ||||
| Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS) | 199 102 | C7 66 | 199 219 | C7 DB | ||||
Sources and credits
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Images, from Wikimedia Commons:
- Hiragana み stroke order animation.gif by Sirgazil, CC0
- Katakana ミ stroke order animation.gif by Sirgazil, CC0
- み-bw.png by No machine-readable author provided. D.328 assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0
- ミ-bw.png by Made by me, M4RC0, using Photoshop. We are making this kind of picture following the protocol of the section : Bitmap Image (PNG), CC BY-SA 2.0
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