Hiragana

Hiragana is a Japanese syllabary, one basic component of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana, kanji, and in some cases rōmaji (the Latin-script alphabet).

Hiragana and katakana are both kana systems. With one or two minor exceptions, each sound in the Japanese language is represented by one character in each system.

Hiragana is used to write native words for which there are no kanji, including grammatical particles. Likewise, hiragana is used to write words whose kanji form is obscure, not known to the writer or readers, or too formal for the writing purpose.

This table will help you study Hiragana. Click on each letter to see how to write it

Monographs (gojūon)

Diacritics (gojūon with dakuten)

Digraphs (yōon)

Digraphs with diacritics (yōon with dakuten)