a | i | u | e | o | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
∅ | あ | い | う | え | お |
K | か | き | く | け | こ |
S | さ | し | す | せ | そ |
T | た | ち | つ | て | と |
N | な | に | ぬ | ね | の |
H | は | ひ | ふ | へ | ほ |
M | ま | み | む | め | も |
Y | や | ゆ | よ | ||
R | ら | り | る | れ | ろ |
W | わ | ゐ | ゑ | を | |
Additional kana | |||||
ん |
Each kana, which may be a hiragana or katakana character, corresponds to one sound in the Japanese language. As depicted at the right using hiragana characters, the sequence begins with あ (a), い (i), う (u), え (e), お (o), then continues with か (ka), き (ki), く (ku), け (ke), こ (ko), and so on for a total of ten rows of five.
In order to remember the gojūon, various mnemonics have been devised. For example,
- A Kind Samurai Told Naomi How My Yak Ran Wild.
For vowel ordering, the vowel sounds in the following English phrase may be used as a mnemonic:
- Ah, we soon get old.
One can also use
- HAIL UNESCO
Kana are syllabic Japanese scripts, a part of the Japanese writing system contrasted with the logographic Chinese characters known in Japan as kanji (漢字). There are three kana scripts: modern cursive hiragana (ひらがな), modern angular katakana (カタカナ), and the old syllabic use of kanji known as man’yōgana (万葉仮名) that was ancestral to both.
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