Ki (kana)

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ki
hiragana katakana
transliteration	ki
translit. with dakuten	gi
translit. with handakuten	(ngi)
hiragana origin	幾
katakana origin	幾
Man'yōgana	支 伎 岐 企 棄 寸 吉 杵 來 貴 紀 記 奇 寄 忌 幾 木 城
Voiced Man'yōgana	伎 祇 芸 岐 儀 蟻 疑 宜 義 擬
spelling kana	切手のキ (Kitte no "ki")
Note: These Man'yōgana originally represented morae with one of two different vowel sounds, which merged in later pronunciation.

き, in hiragana, キ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. Both represent [ki] and are derived from a simplification of the 幾 kanji. The hiragana character き, like さ, is drawn with the lower line either connected or disconnected.

A dakuten may be added to the character; this transforms it into ぎ in hiragana, ギ in katakana, and gi in Hepburn romanization. The phonetic value also changes, to [ɡi] in initial, and varying between [ŋi] and [ɣi] in the middle of words.

A handakuten (゜) does not occur with ki in normal Japanese text, but it may be used by linguists to indicate a nasal pronunciation [ŋi].