き (ki) – Hiragana

Pronunciation

– Pronounced as the Japanese ‘ki’. Sounds closest to the English word ‘key’, but with an elevated ‘i’.

About

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 separated when writing. When printing, the lines are connected.

Mnemonics

Mnemonic 1: Quite simply, the character looks like a ‘key’ – ‘ki’.