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キ (ki), katakana basic

ki

カ row · i column

katakanabasic3 strokes

Stroke order

hiragana counterpart

Variants

Words with キ

kilometer; kilogram
kitchen

How to remember it

Two crossbars meet a slanted stem. Imagine a key with two teeth: ki, with a short vowel.

Where it comes from

キ comes from a simplified part of 幾. Hiragana き has the same source.