し in hiragana and シ in katakana are symbols of the Japanese kana , used to record exactly one mora . In the Polivanov system, it is written in Cyrillic: “si”, and in Latin as “shi”. In the international phonetic alphabet, the sound is recorded: [ɕi] 
listen to either [ʃi] close to english pronunciation. In modern Japanese, it is in the twelfth place in the syllabic alphabet , after さ and before す .
Origin
し and シ appeared as a result of simplified writing of kanji之.
Writing
The order of the traits when writing | The order of the traits when writing |
Character codes in codings
- Unicode :
- し: U + 3057,
- シ: U + 30B7.
| Hiragana : Gojwon | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ん n | ゙ | わ va | ら ra | や i | ま ma | は ha | な on | た ta | さ sa | か ka | あ a |
| っ | ゝ | ゐ v | り ri | み mi | ひ hee | に neither | ち ti | し si | き ki | い and | |
| ヴ in | ゟ | る ru | ゆ y | む mu | ふ fu | ぬ well | つ tsu | す su | く ku | う u | |
| ヶ | ゑ ve | れ re | e | め me | へ he | ね ne | て te | せ se | け ke | え uh | |
| ー | を o | ろ po | よ g | も mo | ほ ho | の but | と that | そ with | こ to | お o | |
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