Yi (kana)
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Yi (hiragana: 𛀆, katakana: 𛄠) is a Japanese mora or a kana used to write it, though it has never been in standard use.[1]
History
It is presumed that yi would have represented [ji].[2] Along with 𛀁 (ye) and 𛄟 (wu), the mora yi has no officially recognized kana, as these morae do not occur in native Japanese words; however, during the Meiji period, linguists almost unanimously agreed on the kana for yi, ye, and wu. 𛀆 (yi) and 𛄟 (wu) are thought to have never occurred as morae in Japanese, and 𛀁 (ye) was merged with え and エ as a result of regular historical sound changes.
Characters
In the Edo period and the Meiji period, some Japanese linguists tried to separate kana i and kana yi. The shapes of characters differed with each linguist. 𛀆 and 𛄠 were just two of many glyphs.
They were phonetic symbols to fill in the blanks of the gojuon table, but Japanese people did not separate them in normal writing.
- i
- Traditional kana
- い[3] (Hiragana)
- イ[4] (Katakana)
- Traditional kana
- yi
- Traditional kana
- い (Hiragana)
- 𛀆[5] (Hentaigana of い. Hiragana.𛀆)
- イ (Katakana)
- Constructed kana
- い〻[6](い with dots. Hiragana.)
- 𛀆〻 [7](𛀆 with dots. Hiragana.)
- イ〻[8](イ with dots. Katakana.)
- 𛄠[9][10](A part of 以.[11] Katakana.)
- Traditional kana
These suggestions were not accepted.
Unicode
The hiragana form of this kana is encoded into Unicode as HENTAIGANA LETTER I-1, with the position of U+1B006, while the katakana is encoded as KATAKANA LETTER ARCHAIC YI, in the position U+1B120.[12]
References
- ^ Iannacone, Jake (2020). "Reply to The Origin of Hiragana /wu/ 平仮名のわ行うの字源に対する新たな発見"
- ^ Gross, Abraham. "Proposal to Encode Missing Japanese Kana" (PDF). Unicode.
- ^ 綴字篇
- ^ 綴字篇
- ^ 綴字篇
- ^ 小学日本文典入門. 巻之1
- ^ 小学日本文典入門. 巻之1
- ^ 小学日本文典入門. 巻之1
- ^ 綴字篇
- ^ 新式漢文捷径初歩
- ^ 新式漢文捷径初歩
- ^ "UCD: UnicodeData.txt". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
See also
- Ye (kana)
- Wu (kana)
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