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i い ki き shi し chi ち ni に
u う ku く su す tsu つ nu ぬ
e え ke け se せ te て ne ね
o お ko こ so そ to と no の
ha は ma ま ya や ra ら wa わ
hi ひ mi み ri り wi ゐ
fu ふ mu む yu ゆ ru る n ん
he へ me め re れ we ゑ
ho ほ mo も yo よ ro ろ wo を
Japanese Alphabet
The Japanese alphabet is usually referred to as kana, specifically hiragana and katakana.
While the Hiragana consists of 48 syllables, it is a phonetic alphabet where each alphabetic
combination represents just a single sound. Thus any Japanese word can be written in a way
that can be read without having to remember how the word is pronounced. So the Japanese
kana are much simpler, the way something is written is the way it sounds. There is also Kanji,
a Japanese system of writing based on borrowed or slightly modified Chinese characters.
Hiragana Syllables
Maybe you have noticed that many sounds are missing, that’s why Japanese added some
additional sounds using diacritics or combinations of syllables, the table below shows the
additional sounds in Hiragana:
ga が za ざ da だ ba ば pa ぱ
gi ぎ ji じ ji ぢ bi び pi ぴ
gu ぐ zu ず zu づ bu ぶ pu ぷ
ge げ ze ぜ de で be べ pe ぺ
go ご zo ぞ do ど bo ぼ po ぽ
Source:- http://www.linguanaut.com/japanese_alphabet.htm