A GUIDE TO HIRAGANA

However unlike Mandarin, Japanese Kanji cannot be used alone. Two additional, syllable-based scripts are used for words without corresponding Kanji and grammatical patterns.

Due to this, Kanji along with Hiragana and Katakana make the Japanese alphabet.

LEARNING HIRAGANA || A SERIES

Let’s start with the very first series of syllable:

LEARNING HIRAGANA || KA SERIES

The second series of the Hiragana Alphabet is Ka:

LEARNING HIRAGANA || SA SERIES

LEARNING HIRAGANA || TA SERIES

LEARNING HIRAGANA || NA SERIES

LEARNING HIRAGANA || HA SERIES

LEARNING HIRAGANA || MA SERIES

LEARNING HIRAGANA || YA SERIES

LEARNING HIRAGANA || RA SERIES

THE LAST 3 SYLLABLES

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