Chapter いち - Knowing Your Alphabet! Hiragana Cheat Sheet

[givenchi]

Chapter One - Knowing Your Alphabet!


Welcome to Learning Hiragana Chapter One! In this section, we will be focusing on the Hiragana alphabet, featuring some notes for you to learn with. Tests will be given separately to each chapter, just PM S u f f e r i n g L o v e, and he can quiz you!

Notes There are 5 vowels in the Japanese language. (a), pronounced "ahh", (i), pronounced like "e" in "eat", (u), pronounced like "oo" in "soon", (e), pronounced like "e" in "elk", and (o), pronounced "oh". All Hiragana characters end with one of these vowels, with the exception of (n). The only "consonant" that does not resemble that of English is the Japanese "r". It is slightly "rolled" as if it were a combination of a "d", "r", and "l".



あ a
い i
う u
え e
お o
か ka
き ki
く ku
け ke
こ ko
が ga
ぎ gi
ぐ gu
げ ge
ご go
さ sa
し shi
す su
せ se
そ so
ざ za
じ ji
ず zu
ぜ ze
ぞ zo
た ta
ち chi
つ tsu
て te
と to
だ da
ぢ ji
づ zu
で de
ど do
な na
に ni
ぬ nu
ね ne
の no
は ha
ひ hi
ふ fu
へ he
ほ ho
ば ba
び bi
ぶ bu
べ be
ぼ bo
ぱ pa
ぴ pi
ぷ pu
ぺ pe
ぽ po
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/m

Exceptions:
1. は (ha) is pronounced "wa" when it immediately follows the topic of the sentence. It is usually only pronounced "ha" when it is part of a word.
2. へ (he) is pronounced "e" when it immediately follows a place or direction. Both of these are very simple to detect.

Note:
You probably noticed that there are 2 "zu" and 2 "ji". づ (zu) and ぢ (ji) are very rarely used. づ (zu) only occurs when there is a つ (tsu) in front of it like in つづく (tsuzuku - to continue) or when a Kanji (Chinese character) that starts with つ (tsu) is paired at the end with another character changing the つ (tsu) to a づ (zu). The same applies for ぢ (ji). Since they are used so rarely I wouldn't worry about them too much. I will let you know whenever we come upon a word in which they are used.  

[Garnet Guardian]

Ｔｈｅ Ｄ ｓｏｕｎｄ ｈａｓ ｉｔ’ｓ ｏｗｎ．．． ｉｔ ｉｓ ｎｏｔｕｎｄｅｒ らりるれろ．
ｉｔｓ だぢづでど、ごめんね。  

[Lelouchsz]

I agree with Uke o-o  

[givenchi]

I was not finished editing my post. I still needed to edit my post.
Which I am still editing.  

[Garnet Guardian]

＜Nice use of the website with all that hiragana/exceptions,(wa and e) I know that site was helpful for me too ^^>  

[givenchi]

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[Garnet Guardian]

S u f f e r i n g L o v e

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It is a good cheat sheet... But it is not the most efficient way of teaching it... For it only gives minuscule information.  

[givenchi]

Ukesagi

S u f f e r i n g L o v e

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It is a good cheat sheet... But it is not the most efficient way of teaching it... For it only gives minuscule information.

I wasn't completely done writing the notes. I should write 'editing' in the title. XD  

[Garnet Guardian]

S u f f e r i n g L o v e

Ukesagi

S u f f e r i n g L o v e

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It is a good cheat sheet... But it is not the most efficient way of teaching it... For it only gives minuscule information.

I wasn't completely done writing the notes. I should write 'editing' in the title. XD

Keeping it would be fine: It is a great Cheat Sheet. Just edit the title making it 'HIRAGANA CHEAT SHEET' or something.  

[Kitsters]

もお
moo X3