Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
#Hiragana is one of the 3 #Japanese writing systems and one of the two Japanese phonetic alphabets. It’s the first writing system you’ll encounter when you learn Japanese because of how common it is in everyday Japanese.
Before you start writing with the more complex Chinese characters (kanji, 漢字), you can write anything and everything using hiragana.
Here are the 46 hiragana characters:
あ a い i う u え e お o
か ka き ki く ku け ke こ ko
さ sa し shi す su せ se そ so
た ta ち chi つ tsu て te と to
な na に ni ぬ nu ね ne の no
は ha ひ hi ふ fu へ he ほ ho
ま ma み mi む mu め me も mo
や ya ゆ yu よ yo
ら ra り ri る ru れ re ろ ro
わ wa を wo
ん n
Although that’s almost double the number of letters in the English alphabet, the characters in the Japanese phonetic system maintain the same pronunciation in the majority of cases.
And, try a Japanese lesson on Rosetta Stone today: tryrosettastone.com/youtube
#日本語 #nihongo #languagelearning
#Hiragana is one of the 3 #Japanese writing systems and one of the two Japanese phonetic alphabets. It’s the first writing system you’ll encounter when you learn Japanese because of how common it is in everyday Japanese.
Before you start writing with the more complex Chinese characters (kanji, 漢字), you can write anything and everything using hiragana.
Here are the 46 hiragana characters:
あ a い i う u え e お o
か ka き ki く ku け ke こ ko
さ sa し shi す su せ se そ so
た ta ち chi つ tsu て te と to
な na に ni ぬ nu ね ne の no
は ha ひ hi ふ fu へ he ほ ho
ま ma み mi む mu め me も mo
や ya ゆ yu よ yo
ら ra り ri る ru れ re ろ ro
わ wa を wo
ん n
Although that’s almost double the number of letters in the English alphabet, the characters in the Japanese phonetic system maintain the same pronunciation in the majority of cases.
And, try a Japanese lesson on Rosetta Stone today: tryrosettastone.com/youtube
#日本語 #nihongo #languagelearning
