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If you are beginning to learn Japanese, you should start with hiragana. Native Japanese speakers also learn hiragana first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Japanese writing system use three different characters: hiragana, katakana, and kanji, with hiragana being the most basic character. Hiragana is used for writing sentences, but it also represents syllables. The English alphabet has different pronunciations depending on the preceding and following letters, but hiragana has only one pronunciation per letter, making it relatively easy to learn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hiragana has 46 basic characters and several variants, all of which are explained in this article. To master Japanese, you need to memorize all the hiragana characters and sounds, including the variants, so please read this article and make sure you understand the basics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Goju-on is the name for a set of basic hiragana characters. The reason for the gap between the name (Goju-on means 50 syllables) and the number of characters (46 characters) is that there were originally 50 characters. Over time, some of the characters fell out of use, but the name remained. The five characters that are no longer used are the ones that are left blank in the table below. The last character “\u3093” is not a Goju-on character, but it is generally included in the Goju-on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the table below, you can see all the basic hiragana characters and the sound of each hiragana indicated by English alphabet . The sounds are created by ondoku3.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
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