• • • Hiragana (, ひらがな) is a, one component of the, along with,, and in some cases (). It is a phonetic lettering system.

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The word hiragana literally means 'ordinary' or 'simple' ('simple' originally as contrasted with kanji). Hiragana and katakana are both systems. With one or two minor exceptions, each sound in the Japanese language (strictly, each ) is represented by one character (or one digraph) in each system. This may be either a vowel such as 'a' (hiragana ); a consonant followed by a vowel such as 'ka' (); or 'n' (), a which, depending on the context, sounds either like English m, n, or ng ( []), or like the of. Because the characters of the kana do not represent single consonants (except in the case of ん 'n'), the kana are referred to as syllabaries and not alphabets. Hiragana is used to write (kana suffixes following a kanji root, for example to inflect verbs and adjectives), various grammatical and function words including, as well as miscellaneous other native words for which there are no or whose kanji form is obscure or too formal for the writing purpose. Words that do have common kanji renditions may also sometimes be written instead in hiragana, according to an individual author's preference, for example to impart an informal feel.

Hiragana is also used to write, a reading aid that shows the of kanji characters. There are two main systems of: the old-fashioned ordering and the more prevalent ordering.

Contents • • • • • • • • • Writing system [ ] Hiragana base characters a i u e o ∅ k s t n h m y r w ( n) Functional marks and diacritics unused/obsolete The modern hiragana syllabary consists of 46 base characters: • 5 singular vowels • 40 consonant–vowel unions • 1 singular consonant These are conceived as a 5×10 grid (, 五十音, 'Fifty Sounds'), as illustrated in the adjacent table, read あ ( a), い ( i), う ( u), え ( e), お ( o), か ( ka), き ( ki), く ( ku), け ( ke), こ ( ko) and so forth, with the singular consonant ん ( n) appended to the end. Of the 50 theoretically possible combinations, yi and wu do not exist in the language, and ye, wi and we are obsolete (or virtually obsolete) in modern Japanese. Wo is usually pronounced as a vowel ( o) in modern Japanese, and is preserved in only one use, as a. Of the kana does not always strictly follow the consonant-vowel scheme laid out in the table. For example, ち, nominally ti, is very often romanised as chi in an attempt to better represent the actual sound in Japanese. These basic characters can be modified in various ways. By adding a marker ( ゛), a voiceless consonant is turned into a voiced consonant: k→ g, ts/s→ z, t→ d, h→ b and ch/ sh→ j.