What character is this?

21 comments

1. MI and NE together!! lolz. looks weird as… is it A with some bits missing?

   Thats not hiragana or katakana

2. That’s the hardly used or obsolete hiragana for “wi”

   Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi_(kana)

3. It’s so obscure I can’t find it on my hirigana keyboard

4. What the hell?? It looks similar to mi but I’ve never seen it before

5. I think it is the old hiragana character for wi, maybe we

   Edit. It is Wi

6. ゐゑ Hiragana

   ヰ ヱ Katakana

   They don’t use these characters anymore
   In katakana you can just ウィ ウェ

7. “Wi”, an archaic hiragana that comes from the kanji 為.

   used to be the i in words like 居る.

   Source: am learning manyougana and hentaigana (wasting my time)

8. I forgot it existed

9. Wait why is everyone saying it’s pronounced “wi”, I’m pretty sure it’s pronounced same way as い(i) right now. Or at least in Tokyo where I grew up people pronounced it that way.

10. Here’s the w row including obsolete kana if anyone is curious (wu doesn’t exist, trust me I looked)

    wa wi we wo

    わ　ゐ　ゑ　を

    ワ　ヰ　ヱ　ヲ

11. The hiragana character for “wi.” It’s technically pronounced as “i,” though.

12. WI

13. No fans of よゐこ here?

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yowiko

14. It’s no anime character I have seen before 🤣

15. I find these often when singing Naga-Uta and Kabuki music!

16. る. Ro

17. Hiragana “Wi”

    I learned it, then was told it’s ancient and irrelevant, and decided to remember it out of spite

18. amongus

19. mi+ru

20. It is ‘wi’

21. It’s a unique hiragana, which is “wi” but pronounced as “i”