About Hiragana ひらがなについて
What is Hiragana?
Four kinds of letters are used in Japanese; Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji and Roman characters
Example: わたしはJRのバスで大学に行きます。
「わたし」「は」「の」「で」「に」「きます」are Hiragana.
「バス」is Katakana.
「大学」「行」are kanji.
「JR」is Roman characters.
Hiragana and pronunciation
Hiragana consists of 46 letters. Each letter corresponds to a sound.
The symbols are curvilinear in style.
Click each character to hear the sound, or to see the stroke and the origin.
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| ka | ki | ku | ke | ko | |
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| sa | shi | su | se | so | |
| t |  |
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| ta | chi | tsu | te | to | |
| n |  |
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| na | ni | nu | ne | no | |
| h |  |
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| ha | hi | fu | he | ho | |
| m |  |
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| ma | mi | mu | me | mo | |
| y |  |
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| ya | yu | yo | |||
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| ra | ri | ru | re | ro | |
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| wa | (w)o | ||||
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Click each character to hear the sound, or to see the stroke and the origin.
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