Hiragana
ひらがな
Hiragana is one of Japan's three scripts (alongside katakana and kanji). It's a syllabary — each character is a whole consonant-vowel syllable, not a single sound — and is used for native Japanese words, grammatical endings, and particles. The 46 basic hiragana cover every syllable in Japanese.
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Hiragana is one of Japan's three scripts (alongside katakana and kanji). It's a syllabary — each character is a whole consonant-vowel syllable, not a single sound — and is used for native Japanese words, grammatical endings, and particles. The 46 basic hiragana cover every syllable in Japanese.
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Hiragana is one of Japan's three scripts (alongside katakana and kanji). It's a syllabary — each character is a whole consonant-vowel syllable, not a single sound — and is used for native Japanese words, grammatical endings, and particles. The 46 basic hiragana cover every syllable in Japanese.
The content model separates page copy from symbol data, so you can publish both a rich landing page and a reusable character grid from the same Hiragana dataset.
This entry currently includes 46 syllables, which makes it suitable for educational pages, glossary views, and alphabet tools.
Things You Might Not Know
- •As a particle, pronounced "wa".
- •As a particle, pronounced "e".
- •Almost always a grammatical particle, pronounced "o".
- •The only standalone consonant — ends syllables, never begins them.
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