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'い' in hiragana or 'イ' in katakana (romanised ''i'') is one of the Japanese kana that each respresent one mora. い is based on the sōsho style of the kanji character 以, and イ is from the radical (left part) of the kanji character 伊. In the modern Japanese system of alphabetical order, it occupies the second position of the alphabet, between あ and う. Additionally, it is the first letter in Iroha, before ろ. In order to write the hiragana い, draw a curve, not entirely unlike a parenthesis, downward stroke with a hook, and then draw a smaller, floating curve to the right side. The Unicode for い is U+3044, and the Unicode for イ is U+30A4.
It is pronounced .

Form	Rōmaji	Hiragana	Katakana
Normal ''a''/''i''/''u''/''e''/''o'' (あ行 ''a-gyō'')	''i''	い	イ
	''ii'' ''ī''	いい, いぃ いー	イイ, イィ イー

Other additional forms
'Form (''y-'')' (''ya'') (や) (ヤ) (''yi'') (い) (イ) (''yu'') (ゆ) (ユ) ''ye'' いぇ イェ (''yo'') (よ) (ヨ)

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Variant forms

Strokes

Representations in other writing systems

Variant forms

Scaled-down versions of the kana (ぃ, ィ) are used to express morae foreign to the Japanese language, such as フィ (fi).

Strokes

Stroke order in writing い

Stroke order in writing イ

Representations in other writing systems

In Japanese Braille, い or イ is represented as:

●	－
●	－
－	－

The Morse code for い or イ, is ・－.
In Japanese phonetic alphabet, one would say "いろはのイ" (Iroha no I.)