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Hiragana

Hiragana are the gateway into Japanese. It all starts here. The posts below will help you get familiar with these basic Japanese characters.

Click here to learn the basic 46 Hiragana characters.

After the basic 46 characters, next are these 25 characters.

Click here to look at a different way of grouping the Hiragana characters.

Click here to learn the last set of 36 characters.

Each of the 5 Japanese vowel sounds can be extended. Read about them here.

Certain Japanese consonant sounds can be “extended”. Read about them here.

Read about a few different ways to pronounce the ん character.

Read about 2 ways that Hiragana are used to help you read Kanji characters.