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...

are historical variants of the now-standard hiragana. In current usage, 'kana' can simply mean hiragana and katakana. Katakana, with a few additions...

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 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 naturalised Japanese words and grammatical...

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

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...

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...

The hiragana cities of Japan are municipalities whose names are written in hiragana rather than kanji as is traditional for Japanese place names. Many...

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...

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...

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

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. Today, among the hiragana glyphs, those not used in school education since 1900 are called "hentaigana". Originally, hiragana had several...

き, in hiragana, キ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. Both represent [ki] and are derived from a simplification of...

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

see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Hentaigana. Ye (hiragana: 𛀁, katakana: エ,𛄡) is a Japanese syllable or a kana used to write it...

containing additional small variants for the Hiragana and Katakana syllabaries, in addition to those in the Hiragana, Katakana and Katakana Phonetic Extensions...

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...

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...

ろ, in hiragana, or ロ in katakana, (romanised as ro) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. The hiragana is written in one stroke...

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

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...

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...

い (Hiragana) イ (Katakana) yi Traditional kana い (Hiragana) 𛀆 (Hentaigana of い. Hiragana.𛀆) イ (Katakana) Constructed kana い〻(い with dots. Hiragana.) 𛀆〻...

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

Shuhari (Kanji: 守破離 Hiragana: しゅはり) is a Japanese martial art concept which describes the stages of learning to mastery. It is sometimes applied to other...