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Kaoyux β Hiragana Chart + Video
Published: 2012-01-04 22:11:56 +0000 UTC; Views: 71427; Favourites: 2747; Downloads: 3199
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YES, that's the japanese characters order and it must be learnt that way!Here you are, the hiragana chart for those who are interested in learning japanese.
Katakana version:
Hiragana - Stroke Order sheet: [link]
Hiragana and Katakana Stroke Order table:
I started with japanese this afternoon and I found a really wonderful website thanks to `rydi1689 Here you are a VIDEO about me practising some hiragana characters in real time:
[link] Kana Recognition Practice: [link]
You can select:
1. The kind of Kana: Hiragana, Katakana, Both
2. "Play sounds" or not (they are played just after you write the answer)
3. Which groups of kana you want to practice
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Probably not my place to say, probably just being an idiot too, but chi is labeled ti?
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I'm used toΒ an "a, ka, ga, sa" order goingΒ downΒ thatΒ is usually taught inΒ the text books and dictionaries I bought. What is the difference between that order and the "a, ka, sa, ta" order in this chart? Am I making sense?
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From what I can tell, this picture just grouped the voiced sounds against the unvoiced sounds.
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this confuses me because it shows one row and the whole row is labeled under one letter. I can't tell if these are all the same letter just look different due to change in sound. Could you help clarify this?
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Well, saying this in case you don't know, Japanese characters represent either just a vowel or a consonant and a vowel, with the exception of the one character that is just pronounced "n." If you are looking for the character that, for example, it pronounced wa, then you go down/up from the top/bottom of the "a" column until you reach the "w" line.
Hope this helped! If you still don't understand just ask and I'll do my best to help you understand. :3
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yeah I'm still a bit confused
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thanks a lot this is SO going to help me with an upcoming test!
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Thank you so much for putting together this lovely chart for Hiragana. I'm currently trying to learn Japanese on my own and this helped immensely. Aside from being very clear to read the colors and background are really cute. I have this printed out and taped to my wall to help me study. ^_^
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Thank you so much I have a chart that I made on my own but this helped so much
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can someone explain to me the difference of hirgana/katakana??? i forgot
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Hirigana is there usual script.
Katakana is for foreign letters. ^^
Loosely put that is.
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Katakana also is used in order to express onomatopoeia or sound effect
and is used in order to express difficulty to understand the meaning
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I know about the onomatopoeia. ^^
But the next one i didn't.. Can you explain? :3
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Someday, I'll submit the explaination
(I think you can understand easier it to see a illust)
well,
Katakana express sounds
If you hear them as just sounds, and you can't get the meaning
You can write them in Katakana
mm...
Did I explain appropriately?
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I have just bought a "learn japanese" book today! Its made of GeorgeThrombley Jr. And Yukari Takenaka :3 The book is named "japanese from zero 1" its a series of 3 boks XD thank You for The chart 
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Thank you! Very helpful!
Question... Did they use to have a symbol for Yi and Ye? Because of "yen" which I understand is now "en". And a game I'm playing has a monster called the "Yian Kut-Ku".
I know that they used to have "Wi" and "Wu"...because my boyfriend has a chart that still has those symbols - which are hard as hell to write...
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Yen in kanji: ε
Yen in hiragana: γγ
westerners added the Y sound for some reason along the line that it made it easier to pronounce.
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Yurikoma is right, we pronounce "en" (γγ) for ε.
Westerners actually pronounce "Yen", this is why we use "οΏ₯"for Japanese yen.
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I wasn't saying I didn't believe them. I was saying that it was interesting; that I didn't know that. : P
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Uhmm.. A little tiny question!!! This is my first time trying to write japanese... What is the exact difference between Hirgana and Katakana??? And when do you use them???
-- Sorry if it's a stupid question ;s
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we use Katakana to pronouce the words from oversea or onomatopoeir.
I think it is reallr really difficult to get a sense of the difference of hiragana and katakana.....
and here is "γ"and"γ" the ancient hiragana that we don't use now, enjoy our language!!
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I just started my first day of first year Japanese... I will use this as a reference!!!
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This is awesome! I've been wanting to learn Japanese.
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Cheers for this I have been learning Japanese but this will help recap when I go back ^^
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have i missed something about the exercise practice... do we have an account or do we need to make one? i don't remember seeing if it cost anything (my internet is running shockingly bad so it only loaded a fraction of the page...)
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may i ask? if the characters on left are hiragana, what do the chart on right represent?
doesnt hiragana only have 46 characters?
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Hiragana does only have 46 characters, but the characters in the right chart are not new, they're just a combination of two characters: the I-column and the subscript of the Y row (ex: kya = ki + ya). This is so that you can get those additional sounds like kya, kyu, kyo, etc.
Hope that made things easier and not harder!
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The chart on the right is just additional sounds also used in the Japanese language.
They are composed of some of the symbols on the left and lowercased symbols following behind.
Or at least that's what it is from my perspective.
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Whoa thanks for this! I'm almost 1 year in Japan but still can't read Hiragana or Katakana 
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I have a question whats the differrence between katakana and hirgana ( some otaku i am )?
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They both are 2 different "alphabets" to express the same silabes.
The most used "alphabet" is the hiragana, this is why it's the first thing japanese kids learn. On the other hand they use the katakana "alphabet" for foreig words, onomatopeias, foreig personal names, technical and scientific terms and for some Japanese company names. Also to stand out some specific words (like our "" or italics)
When they write, they also mix these 2 "alphabets" with KANJI symbols (to write less words I guess). Kanji are logographic Chinese characters. Those symbols represent concepts (and sometimes, only one kanji has 2 meanings), unlike hiragana and katakana (hiragana and katakana are just silabes and have no conceptual meaning, but phonetic). They have around 50,000 different kanjis and the kanji strokes have an order (you can't write them in the order you want).
Japanese is funny for those who are interested in learning it, but I personally think the latin alphabet is way simpler and easier to be honest X'D
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Thanks for the charts! 
But, where's the chart for Romanji?
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romaji isn't an official alphabet used in japan. It is simply how westerners translate Japanese words into english. (there are many variations of romaji and opinions on how it should be written) basicly everyone who knows English should automatic know romaji because that's what it is
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welcome ^^
The romaji chart? Here: [link] or here [link]
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Thanks for the Romaji chart.
As for the second link, it led me to a Sesame Street poster featuring the English alphabet system...Is this really a part of Romaji? 
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romaji = latin letters basically
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Oh, so that explains it...
Thanks.
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I don't want to sound like an idiot by asking this, but what's the difference between katakana and hiragana?
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They both are 2 different "alphabets" to express the same silabes.
The most used "alphabet" is the hiragana, this is why it's the first thing japanese kids learn. On the other hand they use the katakana "alphabet" for foreig words, onomatopeias, technical and scientific terms and for some Japanese company names. Also to stand out some specific words (like our "" or italics)
When they write, they also mix these 2 "alphabets" with KANJI symbols (to write less words I guess). Kanji are logographic Chinese characters. Those symbols represent concepts (and sometimes, only one kanji has 2 meanings), unlike hiragana and katakana (hiragana and katakana are just silabes and have no conceptual meaning, but phonetic). They have around 50,000 different kanjis.
Japanese is funny for those who are interested in learning it, but I personally think the latin alphabet is way simpler and easier to be honest X'D
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Ah, okay thank you.
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From what I can see/remember, katakana is generally used for loan/foreign words (generally english, but can be from other languages), but hiragana is for the traditional words within the language.
Words in Katakana tend to sound like their english counterparts; I.E. - γ’γ€γγ« (Or aidoru) is the Japanese word for "idol." It's made using the katakana for "a" (γ’), "i"(γ€), "do"(γ), and "ru"(γ«). Television is "terebi" (γγ¬γ; Te γ Re γ¬ bi γ.)
Katakana is also used for onomatopoeia; you see it used a lot in manga.
Hope this minor thing helped!
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It did, thanks.
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There's not a huge difference. Both are syllabic and represent the same set of sounds, i.e. there is a symbol for the sound 'ka' in both hiragana and katakana, just different looking symbols.
Hiragana is generally used for traditional Japanese words and simple writing, while katakana is used for names and borrowed words.
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