{"id":49436,"count":709,"description":"\u3090, in hiragana, or \u30f0 in katakana, is a nearly obsolete Japanese kana, each of which represent one mora. It is presumed that \u3090 represented [wi]\u00a0( listen) and that \u3090 and \u3044 indicated different pronunciations until somewhere between the Kamakura period and the Taish\u014d period when they both came to be pronounced [i]. Along with the kana for we, (\u3091 in hiragana, \u30f1 in katakana), this kana was deemed obsolete in Japanese in 1946, and replaced with \u3044 and \u30a4. It is now rare in everyday usage; in onomatopoeia and foreign words, the katakana form \u30a6\u30a3 (U-[small-i]) is preferred.\nThe kana still sees some modern-day usage, such as the spelling of Nikka Whiskey, which is written \"\u30cb\u30c3\u30ab\u30a6\u30f0\u30b9\u30ad\u30fc\" (nikka uwisuk\u012b), the name of the comedy duo Yoiko is written \"\u3088\u3090\u3053\" (yowiko), and a character in the video game series Touhou Project has the name \"\u3066\u3090\" (Tewi). Katakana \u30f0 is sometimes written with a dakuten, \u30f8, to represent a \/vi\/ sound in foreign words; however, most IMEs lack a convenient way to do this. It is far...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/wi\/","name":"WI","slug":"wi","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/49436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=49436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}