JAPANESE PHRASEBOOK

The phrases can be edited and saved to a file. A chart of the Japanese alphabet called Hiragana is shown here.

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Hiragana

	あ a	い i	う u	え e	お o
K	か ka	き ki	く ku	け ke	こ ko
G	が ga	ぎ gi	ぐ gu	げ ge	ご go
S	さ sa	し shi	す su	せ se	そ so
Z	ざ za	じ ji	ず zu	ぜ ze	ぞ zo
T	た ta	ち chi	つ tsu	て te	と to
D	だ da	ぢ ji	づ zu	で de	ど do
N	な na	に ni	ぬ nu	ね ne	の no
H	は ha	ひ hi	ふ fu	へ he	ほ ho
B	ば ba	び bi	ぶ bu	べ be	ぼ bo
P	ぱ pa	ぴ pi	ぷ pu	ぺ pe	ぽ po
M	ま ma	み mi	む mu	め me	も mo
Y	や ya		ゆ yu		よ yo
R	ら ra	り ri	る ru	れ re	ろ ro
W	わ wa				を wo

ん
n

Hiragana is the Japanese alphabet. The top row of the chart are vowels.

a あ [ahh]
i い [ee]
u う [oo]
e え [eh]
o お [oh]

The letters on the left side are consonants. The hiragana characters are made up of a consonant as the first letter and the corresponding vowel as the second letter. So for example, the か character next to the letter K corresponds to the vowel A and is pronounced ka.

The only exception is the singular consonant, ん, which is an n.

Notice that some of the consonants are grouped together and the hiragana characters are the same except for adding double dots ( ゛) or a circle ( ゜) to the upper right hand corner. These characters are called Dakuon and Handakuon respectively and represent additional hiragana consonants.

When a small tsu character つ, called sokuon, is added it means the following consonant forms a double consonant with the following character. For example, おと is oto which means "sound." Adding a small tsu character おっとis otto which means "husband."

For example, good afternoon is Konnichiwa spelled こんにちは.

ko こ
n ん
ni に
chi ち
wa は

拗音 Youon

	ya	yu	yo
	ゃ	ゅ	ょ
K	きゃ kya	きゅ kyu	きょ kyo
G	ぎゃ gya	ぎゅ gyu	ぎょ gyo
S	しゃ sha	しゅ shu	しょ sho
Z	じゃ ja	じゅ ju	じょ jo
T	ちゃ cha	ちゅ chu	ちょ cho
N	にゃ nya	にゅ nyu	にょ nyo
H	ひゃ hya	ひゅ hyu	ひょ hyo
B	びゃ bya	びゅ byu	びょ byo
P	ぴゃ pya	ぴゅ pyu	ぴょ pyo
M	みゃ mya	みゅ myu	みょ myo
R	りゃ rya	りゅ ryu	りょ ryo

dave@worldsworstwriter.org 2025-04-12