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ひ, in hiragana, or ヒ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora.Both can be written in two strokes, sometimes one for hiragana, and both are phonemically /hi/ although for phonological reasons, the actual pronunciation is ⓘ.
The Japanese language makes use of a system of honorific speech, called keishō (敬称), which includes honorific suffixes and prefixes when talking to, or referring to others in a conversation. Suffixes are often gender-specific at the end of names, while prefixes are attached to the beginning of many nouns.
'Kana' is a compound of kari (仮, 'borrowed; assumed; false') and na (名, 'name'), which eventually collapsed into kanna and ultimately 'kana'. [3]Today it is generally assumed that 'kana' were considered "false" kanji due to their purely phonetic nature, as opposed to mana which were "true" kanji used for their meanings.
Hifumi (written: 一二三) is a unisex Japanese given name, as well as a family name. Notable people with the given name include: Hifumi Abe (阿部 一二三, born 1997), Japanese judoka; Hifumi Katō (加藤 一二三, born 1940), Japanese shogi player; Hifumi Shimoyama (下山 一二三, born 1930), Japanese classical composer
Hideki Hamaguchi (浜口 秀樹, born 1956), Japanese basketball player; Hideki Hosaka (保坂 秀樹, 1971–2021), Japanese professional wrestler; Hideki Imai (今井 秀樹, born 1943), Japanese information theorist and cryptographer; Hideki Imamura (今村 栄喜, born 1972), Japanese musician, co-founder and vocalist of the band Siam Shade
Hi-Chew candy was first released in 1975. It was re-released in the packaging of individually wrapped candies in February 1996. The origins of Hi-Chew began when Taichiro Morinaga sought to create an edible kind of chewing gum which could be swallowed because of the Japanese cultural taboo against taking food out of one's mouth while eating. [1]
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し, in hiragana, or シ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. Both represent the phonemes /si/, reflected in the Nihon-shiki and Kunrei-shiki romanization si, although for phonological reasons, the actual pronunciation is ⓘ, which is reflected in the Hepburn romanization shi. The shapes of these kana have ...