じ
See also: し, レ, and 乚
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Etymology 1
The hiragana character し (shi) with a dakuten (゛).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [d͡ʑi], [ʑi]
Syllable
じ (romaji ji)
- The hiragana syllable じ (ji). Its equivalent in katakana is ジ (ji).
See also
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あぁ | かゕがか゚ | さざ | ただ | な | はばぱ | ま | やゃ | らら゚ | わゎわ゙ | ん |
いぃ | きぎき゚ | しじ | ちぢ | に | ひびぴ | み | 𛀆 | りり゚ | ゐ𛅐ゐ゙ | |
うぅゔ | くぐく゚ | すず | つっづ | ぬ | ふぶぷ | む | ゆゅ | るる゚ | 𛄟 | |
えぇ | けゖげけ゚ | せぜ | てで | ね | へべぺ | め | 𛀁 | れれ゚ | ゑ𛅑ゑ゙ | |
おぉ | こごこ゚ | そぞ | とど | の | ほぼぽ | も | よょ | ろろ゚ | を𛅒を゙ | |
Additional symbols ーゝゞゟ |
Counter
じ • (-ji)
- 時: hour, o'clock
- 寺: (Buddhism) temple; monastery; place of worship
- 次: number of times: an ordinal marker; number in a sequence, number of aspects or dimensions
- 箇:
Noun
じ • (ji)
- 柱:
- 地: earth, dirt; fabric, cloth; territory
- 字: letter, character
- 侍:
- 持:
- 時:
- 痔: hemorrhoids
- 辞: speech
Pronoun
じ • (ji)
- 児:
Suffix
じ • (-ji)
- 路: a road, a street; attaches to place names, indicating a road to that place; attaches to a time duration, indicating a trip taking that length of time
- 時: at the time of
Etymology 3
For pronunciation and definitions of じ – see the following entries. | ||||||||||||||
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(This term, じ, is an alternative spelling of the above Sino-Japanese terms. For a list of all kanji read as じ, not just those used in Japanese terms, see Category:Japanese kanji read as じ.) |
Suffix
じ • (-ji)
- (Classical Japanese) Attaches to the 未然形 (mizenkei, “irrealis or incomplete form”) of verbs to form the negative conjectural/volitional, equivalent to modern まい (-mai).
- Iroha
- 浅き夢見じ 酔ひもせず
- Asaki yume miji
Ei mo sezu - We shall not have superficial dreams
Nor be deluded.
- Asaki yume miji
- 浅き夢見じ 酔ひもせず
- Iroha
Usage notes
This word is morphologically an inflectional suffix. It is classified as 助動詞 (jodōshi, “auxiliary verb”) in traditional Japanese grammar.