Hiragana (平仮名, ひらがな, IPA: [çiɾaɡaꜜna, çiɾaɡana(ꜜ)]) is a Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana as well as kanji...

phonological units, morae. In current usage, kana most commonly refers to hiragana and katakana. It can also refer to their ancestor magana (真仮名, lit. 'true...

Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji). The word katakana...

Hiragana Times (ひらがな タイムズ) is a magazine published in Japan; its audience is foreigners residing in Japan. The Hiragana Times is unique in that all the...

Hiragana is a Unicode block containing hiragana characters for the Japanese language. The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process...

characters, and syllabic kana. Kana itself consists of a pair of syllabaries: hiragana, used primarily for native or naturalized Japanese words and grammatical...

Hiragana and katakana were first simplified from kanji, and hiragana, emerging somewhere around the 9th century, was mainly used by women. Hiragana was...

used with hiragana, for example in the signs of ramen restaurants, which are normally written らーめん in hiragana. Usually, however, hiragana does not use...

are a small number of municipalities in Japan whose names are written in hiragana or katakana, together known as kana, rather than kanji as is traditional...

Akimoto. The group was established as a subgroup of Keyakizaka46 named Hiragana Keyakizaka46 on 30 November 2015, and was renamed and spun off into its...

space bar; conversion (henkan 変換), on the right of the space bar; katakana/hiragana/rōmaji (カタカナ / ひらがな / ローマ字), on the right of the space bar, next to 変換...

kanji characters: 日 (ni, written in hiragana as に), 本 (hon, written in hiragana as ほん) and 語 (go, written in hiragana as ご). Furigana may be added by character...

A (hiragana: あ, katakana: ア) is a Japanese kana that represents the mora consisting of single vowel [a]. The hiragana character あ is based on the sōsho...

Hiragana Oshi (ひらがな推し) is a Japanese late night variety show starring Japanese idol group Hiragana Keyakizaka46. It was hosted by the comedy duo Audrey...

COMBINING KATAKANA-HIRAGANA VOICED SOUND MARK U+309A ◌゚ COMBINING KATAKANA-HIRAGANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK U+309B ゛ KATAKANA-HIRAGANA VOICED SOUND MARK...

forms of hiragana. In contrast to modern Japanese, originally hiragana had several forms for a single sound. For example, while the hiragana reading "ha"...

see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Hentaigana. Ye (hiragana: 𛀁, katakana: エ, sometimes distinguished as 𛄡) is a Japanese mora or...

normal writing. u Traditional kana う (Hiragana) 𛀋 (A variant form of う. Hiragana.) 𛀍 (A variant form of う. Hiragana.) ウ (Katakana) Constructed kana (A...

fasciculi V. (1712). He wrote that Japan had three syllabaries: firo-canna (hiragana) and catta-canna (katakana), both used by commons, and imatto-canna, used...

schoolchildren using hiragana characters. It became a popular drawing during the Edo period. The word breaks down into seven hiragana characters: he (へ)...

are still used, along with the subsequently-derived syllabic scripts of hiragana and katakana. The characters have Japanese pronunciations; most have two...

Japanese). Simplified versions of man'yōgana eventually gave rise to both the hiragana and katakana scripts, which are used in Modern Japanese. Scholars from...

following hiragana (bold indicates rental vehicle characters): さすせそたちつてとなにぬねのはひふほまみむめもやゆよらりるろれわ Green plates can have the following hiragana: あいうえかきくけこを...

み, in hiragana, or ミ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. The hiragana is written in two strokes, while the katakana...

Yori (hiragana: ゟ, katakana: ) is one of the Japanese kana. It is a polysyllabic kana which represents two morae. Both the hiragana and katakana forms...

Ri (hiragana: り, katakana: リ) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represent one mora. Both are written with two strokes and both represent the sound...

see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Hentaigana. Yi (hiragana: 𛀆, katakana: 𛄠) is a Japanese mora or a kana used to write it, though...

る, in hiragana, or ル in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represent one mora. The hiragana is written in one stroke; the katakana in...

Ma (hiragana: ま, katakana: マ) is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. The hiragana is made in three strokes, while the katakana in...

ゑ in hiragana, or ヱ in katakana, is an obsolete Japanese kana that is normally pronounced [e] in current-day Japanese. The combination of a W-column kana...