Chapter 1
ひらがな:
An introduction to hiragana
You can click on some ひらがなhiragana, and see the romaji reading!
Be prepared! After lesson 10, the romaji tooltips will be removed.
You can think of ひらがなhiragana as the alphabet of Japanese! Each character represents a sound, and unlike English combining characters and placement rarely effects the way it’s pronounced!
Below is a ひらがな chart with all the characters you will need to know.
A | I | U | E | O | a | u | o | ||
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あ | い | う | え | お | Combos below stem from the いi column | ||||
K | か | き | く | け | こ | ky | きゃ | きゅ | きょ |
S | さ | し | す | せ | そ | sh | しゃ | しゅ | しょ |
T | た | ち | つ | て | と | ch | ちゃ | ちゅ | ちょ |
N | な | に | ぬ | ね | の | ny | にゃ | にゅ | にょ |
H | は | ひ | ふ | へ | ほ | hy | ひゃ | ひゅ | ひょ |
M | ま | み | む | め | も | my | みゃ | みゅ | みょ |
Y | や | ゆ | よ | ||||||
R | ら | り | る | れ | ろ | ry | りゃ | りゅ | りょ |
W | わ | を | |||||||
ん | |||||||||
G | が | ぎ | ぐ | げ | ご | gy | ぎゃ | ぎゅ | ぎょ |
Z | ざ | じ | ず | ぜ | ぞ | jy | じゃ | じゅ | じゅ |
D | だ | ぢ | づ | で | ど | jy | ぢゃ | ぢゅ | ぢょ |
B | ば | び | ぶ | べ | ぼ | by | びゃ | びゅ | びょ |
P | ぱ | ぴ | ぷ | ぺ | ぽ | py | ぴゃ | ぴゅ | ぴょ |