し (shi), hiragana basic
し
shi
さ row · i column
hiraganabasic1 stroke
Stroke order
Pronunciation
Say shi, with a soft sh sound, not si. Keep the vowel short and steady.
katakana counterpart
Variants
Words with し
仕事しごとwork / job
写真しゃしんphoto; photograph
知るしるfind out; learn
How to remember it
しA fishing line drops down and curves up at the end. Imagine quietly saying shi while you wait for a fish.
Where it comes from
之し
し developed from a flowing handwritten form of 之, reduced to a single sweeping stroke.