KANA/KANJI Lesson Three - Advanced Hiragana

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Back to hiragana for another lesson, bear with me, pupils.

If you read through the chart I provided, you probably noticed that adding a little " mark to the character changes its sound, and that adding a little circle to the "H" characters turns them into "P" characters.

If you did not notice that, please review this chart.

http://www.tokyowithkids.com/fyi/hiragana_chart.html

You will need to memorize which characters change sounds.

K becomes G

S becomes Z

T becomes D

H becomes B

H with circle becomes P

At the very bottom of the chart, you also probably noticed the "kya, kyu,", etc symbols. Whenever you see a syllable like "sha", you write it as shi + small ya.

Note that you can only do this with characters that end in the "i" sound, like ki, mi, bi, chi, etc.

You'll also notice that some Japanese words, when written out in roman letters (romaji), have a double consonant. For example, the word "notte" (which is a version of the verb, "to ride") has a double t.

That shows up in hiragana like this:

のって

See the small tsu? That small tsu character indicates that when you say the word, you sort of stop your throat at that point. It creates a very hard T sound, which is expressed as "notte" in romaji.

You've also probably seen romaji words with a line written over the o. THIS DOES NOT INDICATE A DOUBLE O. A long O sound is always produced by an O syllable followed by a U.

Ex - Tōkyō is written in Japanese as "toukyou", not tookyoo.

I hope that this answers any questions you might have had about hiragana. If you have more questions, post them here. Hiragana is hard work, with lots of memorization, so keep playing those games from lesson one!

がんばって！  

[Rihanna Bae]

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At the very bottom of the chart, you also probably noticed the "kya, kyu,", etc symbols. Whenever you see a syllable like "sha", you write it as shi + small ya.

Note that you can only do this with characters that end in the "i" sound, like ki, mi, bi, chi, etc.

didnt understand this part?  

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Kinukio

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At the very bottom of the chart, you also probably noticed the "kya, kyu,", etc symbols. Whenever you see a syllable like "sha", you write it as shi + small ya.

Note that you can only do this with characters that end in the "i" sound, like ki, mi, bi, chi, etc.

didnt understand this part?

What she means is that syllables ending with "i" き (ki), し (shi), ち (chi), み (mi), ひ (hi), り (ri) turn into きゃ (kya), きゅ (kyu), きょ (kyo), しゃ (sha), しゅ (shu), しょ (sho), etc., etc., when や (ya), ゆ (yu), and よ (yo), are added to them.

Hope that didn't confuse you even more XD  

[SquackinVox]

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You've also probably seen romaji words with a line written over the o. THIS DOES NOT INDICATE A DOUBLE O. A long O sound is always produced by an O syllable followed by a U.

Ex - Tōkyō is written in Japanese as "toukyou", not tookyoo.

I'm sorry, but this is not always the case. For example 大坂 or 「おおさか」 "Osaka" and 大きい or「おおきい」 an "i-adjective" for large or big both use a second お instead of う to indicate the extension of the vowel.  

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SquackinVox

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You've also probably seen romaji words with a line written over the o. THIS DOES NOT INDICATE A DOUBLE O. A long O sound is always produced by an O syllable followed by a U.

Ex - Tōkyō is written in Japanese as "toukyou", not tookyoo.

I'm sorry, but this is not always the case. For example 大坂 or 「おおさか」 "Osaka" and 大きい or「おおきい」 an "i-adjective" for large or big both use a second お instead of う to indicate the extension of the vowel.

Anytime there is a double o, both o's should be written out in roumaji.  

[ORANGIE JUUSH]

I understand, I think. :D

 

[Nana Shinu Ai]

Tookyo than Tookyoo how it written right?
but what if we want to Hiroshima in hiragana how do we say that  

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Phoniex of Darkness

Tookyo than Tookyoo how it written right?
but what if we want to Hiroshima in hiragana how do we say that

Tokyo - とうきょう
Hiroshima - ひろしま  

[Nana Shinu Ai]

ariagato sensei it helped