に, in
hiragana, or ニ in
katakana, is one of the Japanese
kana, which each represent one
mora
Mora may refer to:
People
* Mora (surname)
Places Sweden
* Mora, Säter, Sweden
* Mora, Sweden, the seat of Mora Municipality
* Mora Municipality, Sweden
United States
* Mora, Louisiana, an unincorporated community
* Mora, Minnesota, a city
* M ...
. The hiragana is written in three strokes, while the katakana in two. Both represent although for
phonological reasons, the actual pronunciation is .
Notably, the katakana (ニ) is functionally identical to the kanji for two (二), pronounced the same way, and written similarly.
に is used as a
particle, with a similar function to the English "to", "in", "at", or "by":
Stroke order
The hiragana に is made with three
stroke
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s:
#A vertical stroke from top to bottom.
#A short, horizontal stroke to the upper right of the first stroke, going from left to right.
#Another short, horizontal stroke at the bottom right of the first stroke, going from left to right.
The katakana ニ is made with two strokes:
# At the top, a horizontal stroke from left to right.
# Another, longer horizontal stroke under the first stroke
Other communicative representations
* Full Braille representation
*
Computer encodings
See also
*
Japanese grammar
References
Handbook of Japanese Grammar - Masahiro Tanimori (Tuttle 1994)
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Specific kana