What is Hiragana?
- JLPT Kanji Mnemonics
- Jul 5
- 1 min read
The modern HIRAGANA syllabary consists of 46 base characters.
It is mainly used for:
Okurigana - kana suffixes following a kanji root, for example to inflect verbs and adjectives.
Particles
Native words for which there are no kanji or whose kanji form is too formal for the writing purpose
Furigana - a reading aid that shows the pronunciation of kanji characters.
The Hiragana chart can be observed below:
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