Katakana Tutorial Series.
Learning Japanese Katakana Letter Pi.
In this article, we are going to learn about another katakana letter which is written as ピ and is spelled as ‘pi’. This letter was derived from basic katakana letter hi (ヒ). By adding a maru or characters symbolized in a circle which is written at the right top of katakana letter ho , it is automatically create a new katakana letter ピ which is spelled as ‘pi’. This letter has three stroke steps which is shown as follow :
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There are several words which is began with letter pi (ピ), below is an example of the words, how to spell the words, meaning of the words and a proper example of those words in a sentence.
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| Number of strokes | 3 | ||
| How to spell | Pi | ||
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| No. | Words | Romaji | Meaning |
| 1. | ピアノ | piano | piano |
| 2. | ピアニスト | pianisuto | pianists |
| 3. | ピストル | pisutoru | pistol |
| 4. | ピーナツ | pi-natsu | peanut |
| 5. | ピクニック | pikunikku | picnic |
| 6. | ピクセル | pikuseru | pixel |
| 7. | ピンク | pinku | pink |
| 8. | ピンポン | pinpon | pingpong (sport) |
| 9. | ピッチャー | piccha- | pitcher |
| 10. | ピザ | piza- | pizza |
