ni
hiragana katakana
transliteration	ni
hiragana origin	仁
katakana origin	仁
Man'yōgana	二 人 日 仁 爾 迩 尼 耳 柔 丹 荷 似 煮 煎
spelling kana	日本のニ (Nippon no ni)
unicode	U+306B, U+30CB
braille

に, in hiragana, or ニ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. The hiragana is written in three strokes, while the katakana in two. Both represent /ni/ although for phonological reasons, the actual pronunciation is [ɲi].

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

Stroke order in writing に

Stroke order in writing ニ

The hiragana に is made with three strokes:

1. A vertical stroke from top to bottom.
2. A short, horizontal stroke to the upper right of the first stroke, going from left to right.
3. 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:

1. At the top, a horizontal stroke from left to right.
2. Another, longer horizontal stroke under the first stroke

Other communicative representations

Japanese radiotelephony alphabet	Wabun code
日本のニ Nippon no "Ni"	▄▄▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄ ⓘ

Japanese Navy Signal Flag	Japanese semaphore	Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling)	Braille dots-123 Japanese Braille

• Full Braille representation

に / ニ in Japanese Braille		N + Yōon braille
に / ニ ni	にい / ニー nī	にゃ / ニャ nya	にゃあ / ニャー nyā	にゅ / ニュ nyu	にゅう / ニュー nyū	にょ / ニョ nyo	にょう / ニョー nyō

Look up に or ニ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

• Computer encodings

See also

• Japanese grammar

References

Handbook of Japanese Grammar - Masahiro Tanimori (Tuttle 1994)