ひ, in hiragana, or ヒ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one

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. Both can be written in two strokes, sometimes one for hiragana, and both are phonemically although for phonological reasons, the actual pronunciation is , the sound would be nearer to be transcribed "hyi" in ro-maji. The pronunciation of the voiceless palatal fricative �is similar to that of the English word hue �uːfor some speakers. In the Sakhalin dialect of the

Ainu language Ainu (, ), or more precisely Hokkaido Ainu, is a language spoken by a few elderly members of the Ainu people on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. It is a member of the Ainu language family, itself considered a language family isolate ...

, ヒ can be written as small ㇶ to represent a final h sound after an ''i'' sound (イㇶ ''ih''). Along with other extended katakana, this was developed to represent sounds in Ainu that are not present in standard Japanese katakana.

Stroke order

Other communicative representations

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