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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]
ん, in hiragana or ン in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora.ん is the only kana that does not end in a vowel sound (although in certain cases the vowel ending of kana, such as す, is unpronounced).
と, in hiragana, or ト in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora.Both represent the sound [to], and when written with dakuten represent the sound [do].
There are a small number of municipalities in Japan whose names are written in hiragana or katakana, together known as kana, rather than kanji as is traditional for Japanese place names. [1] Many city names written in kana have kanji equivalents that are either phonetic manyōgana, or whose kanji are outside of the jōyō kanji.
ほ, in hiragana, or ホ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora.Both are made in four strokes and both represent [ho].In the Sakhalin dialect of the Ainu language, ホ can be written as small ㇹ to represent a final h sound after an o sound (オㇹ oh).
ふ, in hiragana, or フ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora.The hiragana is made in four strokes, while the katakana in one. It represents the phoneme /hɯ/, although for phonological reasons (general scheme for /h/ group, whose only phonologic survivor to /f/ ([ɸ]) remaining is ふ: b←p←f→h), the actual pronunciation is ⓘ, which is why it is ...
き, in hiragana, キ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora.Both represent [ki] and are derived from a simplification of the 幾 kanji.The hiragana character き, like さ, is drawn with the lower line either connected or disconnected.
Nu, ぬ in hiragana, or ヌ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana each representing one mora.Both hiragana and katakana are made in two strokes and represent [nɯ].They are both derived from the Chinese character 奴.