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Hirakana is Japanese basic charactor. They are constructed by 46 characters and express pronunciation. Languages using alphabet like English basically express puronaunciation by combination of vowel and consonant, but hiragana express that combination by one character.(There are some exceptions.)

They don't have any meaning by each characters itself. Title of this topic is kanji which means hiragana. Every word written by kanji can be also written by hiragana.

Hiragana is pretty simple and easy to remember, comparing to kanji. I give you complete list of hiragana so that you can try writing Japanese.

For example "hirakana". First divide word into hirakana combination of vowel and consonant like this. "hi - ra - ka - na". Then find character from list and write!

It's pretty easy to write hiragana, but there is some difficulty to convert English names or words into hiragana. If you want, use ninja name database. This will convert your name not only to hiragana but also into KANJI!