ち

See also: 5, ら, さ, ざ, ぢ, 𠀁, and ㄘ

ち U+3061, ち HIRAGANA LETTER TI ← だ [U+3060] Hiragana ぢ → [U+3062]

Japanese

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t͡ɕi]

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Etymology 1

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

Syllable

ち • (chi) 

1. The hiragana syllable ち (chi). Its equivalent in katakana is チ (chi). It is the seventeenth syllable in the gojūon order; its position is た行くだりい段だん (ta-gyō i-dan, “row ta, section i”).

Derived terms

• ちゃ (cha), ちゅ (chu), ちょ (cho)
• ぢ (ji)

See also

• (Hiragana) 平仮名ひらがな; あぁ, いぃ, うぅゔ, えぇ, おぉ, かゕが, きぎ, くぐ, けゖげ, こ𛄲 (𛄲)ご, さざ, しじ, すず, せぜ, そぞ, ただ, ちぢ, つっづ, てで, とど, な, に, ぬ, ね, の, はばぱ, ひびぴ, ふぶぷ, へべぺ, ほぼぽ, ま, み, む, め, も, やゃ, 𛀆, ゆゅ, 𛀁, よょ, らら゚, りり゚, るる゚, れれ゚, ろろ゚, わゎわ゙, ゐ𛅐 (𛅐)ゐ゙, 𛄟 (𛄟), ゑ𛅑 (𛅑)ゑ゙, を𛅒 (𛅒)を゙, ん, ー, ゝ, ゞ, ゟ

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of ち – see the following entries.

【千せん】1 [numeral] a thousand, 1000

【血ち】3 [noun] blood

【乳ちち】6 [noun] (archaic) milk [noun] (archaic) breast

【家いえ】2 [noun] a house

【地ち】2 [noun] earth, land, ground [noun] a place, a region, a piece of land [noun] territory, dominion [noun] (of a crate, etc.) the bottom [noun] (printing, of a page) the bottom margin [suffix] place, area

【知ち】2 [noun] wisdom Alternative spelling 智さとし

【痴ち】S [noun] foolishness, stupidity [noun] (Buddhism) ignorance, one of the three roots of the vice dharmas [affix] foolish, stupid [affix] senseless, mad [affix] craze, obsession

【路みち】3 [suffix] (obsolete) attaches to place names, indicating a road to that place Alternative spelling 道みち

(This term, ち (chi), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.) For a list of all kanji read as ち, see Category:Japanese kanji read as ち.)

(The following entries are uncreated: 日ひ, 個こ, 箇, 父ちち, 茅ちがや, 鉤かぎ, 鈎かぎ, 霊れい, 治ち, 智さとし, 笞むち, 徴ちょう, 道みち.)