Japanese Learning #2 Learning Hiragana

Let's us study the easiest first. Hiragana. Well all you need is to remember them that's it. below is Hiragana table list.

Hiragana Table

		k	s	t	n	h	m	y	r	w	n
a	あ	か	さ	た	な	は	ま	や	ら	わ	ん
i	い	き	し shi	ち chi	に	ひ	み		り
u	う	く	す	つ tsu	ぬ	ふ fu	む	ゆ	る
e	え	け	せ	て	ね	へ	め		れ
o	お	こ	そ	と	の	ほ	も	よ	ろ	を

*There is also wi and we but it has been obsoleted.

beside those main character, there are also other 5 sounds that can be made by adding affix either a two tiny lines similar to a double quotation mark called dakuten （濁点） or a tiny circle called handakuten （半濁点） to the character. it's called, the muddied sound. Muddied sound affixes can only be applied to consonant /k/, /s/, /t/, and /h/.



Muddied Table

	g	z	d	b	p
a	が	ざ	だ	ば	ぱ
i	ぎ	じ ji	ぢ ji	び	ぴ
u	ぐ	ず	づ dzu	ぶ	ぷ
e	げ	ぜ	で	べ	ぺ
o	ご	ぞ	ど	ぼ	ぽ

/k/ with dakuten make the sound /g/, /s/ with dakuten makes /z/, /t/ with dakuten makes /d/, and h with dakuten makes /b/ while if it is with handakuten makes /p/.
Notice that 「ぢ」 sounds essentially identical to 「じ」 and both are pronounced as / ji /, while 「づ」 is pronounced like / dzu /

Last, there are small /ya/, /yu/, /yo/, and /tsu/. Small /ya/, /yu/, /yo/ is used to add their sound to a character like in nya = 「にゃ」 while small /tsu/ used to carry the consonant sound from the next character like in kappa = 「かっぱ」.



All Small Possible や、　ゆ、 and　よ Combination

	k	s	c	n	h	m	r	g	j	b	p
ya	きゃ	しゃ	ちゃ	にゃ	ひゃ	みゃ	りゃ	ぎゃ	じゃ	びゃ	ぴゃ
yu	きゅ	しゅ	ちゅ	にゅ	ひゅ	みゅ	りゅ	ぎゅ	じゅ	びゅ	ぴゅ
yo	きょ	しょ	ちょ	にょ	ひょ	みょ	りょ	ぎょ	じょ	びょ	ぴょ

Notice that all character that can be combined with small /ya/, /yu/, and /yo/ are from the vocal /i/

Okay. That's all for Hiragana. Of course you won't remember them just by staring at them so here's your homework

Hiragana Exercise

Then let's move on to the next class

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