Hiragana Katakana

Hiragana Katakana self-learning materials

Hiragana Katakana Tables called Kana 50-On Hyoo

Tables PDF PDF file for printing, 3 pages, A4

Hiragana Writing Practice including Hiragana tables, 15 pages, B5

Katakana Writing Practice including Katakana tables, 15 pages, B5

Both Hiragana & Katakana

including Hiragana Katakana writing practice sheets, 26 pages, B5

Hiragana Kickoff

Katakana Kickoff

Let's start learning Hiragana Katakata. This is for your warming-up.

Hiragana First Step

Katakana First Step

If you are new to learning Japanese characters, go Hiragana first.

Hiragana Type & Check

Katakana Type & Check

This series is a supplementary material available to members.

Let's Read Sentences in Hiragana Katakana

This series is a supplementary material available to members.

Hiragana Katakana - Overview

Both Hiragana and Katakana consists of 46 basic letters and several combination letters.
The vowels are a, i, u, e and o.

In modern Japanese, Hiragana is used for native Japanese words.
Katakana is used for loanwords (words of foreign origin) such as Amerika (America) and Wain (wine).

The long vowels are written in the following ways.
(See Hiragana First Step about details of the long vowels)

Hiragana

Katakana - The long vowel is indicated by a symbol " - ".
(See Katakana First Step about details of the long vowels)

The double consonants are indicated by the small tsu.
(See Hiragana First Step about details of the double consonants)

The particles wa and o are written in the following.
(See Hiragana First Step about details of the particle "wa" and "o")

Ordinary Japanese sentences are written in the following.
(See Hiragana First Step for more example sentences with audio)

There is no Space between word and word in the ordinary Japanese sentence.