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Hiragana (平仮名, ひらがな, IPA: [çiɾaɡaꜜna, çiɾaɡana(ꜜ)]) is a Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana as well as kanji. It is a phonetic lettering system. The word hiragana means "common" or "plain" kana (originally also "easy", as contrasted with kanji). [1] [2] [3]
English: Hiragana table with stroke order. Français : Tableau des hiraganas avec ordre des traits. العربية: جدول حروف الهيراغانا مع طريقة كتابتها.
The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Japanese language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.
Occupies part of row 3. The 26 letters of the English alphabet in uppercase and lowercase form for a total of 52. Hiragana Occupies row 4. Contains 48 unvoiced kana (including the obsolete wi and we), 20 voiced kana , 5 semi-voiced kana , 10 small kana for palatalized and assimilated sounds, for a total of 83 characters. Katakana
The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana.Kana itself consists of a pair of syllabaries: hiragana, used primarily for native or naturalized Japanese words and grammatical elements; and katakana, used primarily for foreign words and names, loanwords, onomatopoeia, scientific names, and sometimes for emphasis.
Language input keys, which are usually found on Japanese and Korean keyboards, are keys designed to translate letters using an input method editor (IME). On non-Japanese or Korean keyboard layouts using an IME, these functions can usually be reproduced via hotkeys, though not always directly corresponding to the behavior of these keys.
In contrast to the hiragana syllabary, which is used for Japanese words not covered by kanji and for grammatical inflections, the katakana syllabary usage is comparable to italics in English; specifically, it is used for transcription of foreign-language words into Japanese and the writing of loan words (collectively gairaigo); for emphasis; to ...
They were phonetic symbols to fill in the blanks of the gojuon table, but Japanese people did not separate them in normal writing. i Traditional kana い [3] (Hiragana) イ [3] (Katakana) yi Traditional kana い (Hiragana) 𛀆 [3] (A variant form of い. Hiragana.𛀆) イ (Katakana) Constructed kana い゙ [4] (い with dots. Hiragana ...