katakana1

Katakana is Japanese one of basic charactor. They are constructed by 46 characters and express pronunciation. The function of katakana is almost same as hiragana. So, what's the difference? The difference is it's use. Hiragana is used to express Japanese word, and katakana is mainly used to express exotic words. So non-Japanese names are expressed by katakana when they are written in Japanese. They are also used to express the reading of Kanji words, since kanji words sometimes have multiple reading or irregular reading and not all Japanese can read them correctly. Below is complete list of katakana.

This list does not seems enough to express pronunciation of English or other language. This is because Japanese has less sound than other language. For example, Japanese does not have pronunciation of "L", so alot of Japanese can't tell "Right" and "Light". Because they are same when written in Katakana.
This may be one of the reason that a lot of Japanese can't speak good English, and non-Japanese people has difficulty in learning Japanese.

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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!

Japanese characters

Recently Japanese foods, animation is getting popular, Japanese characters are often seen in all over the world. I often see tatoo in Japanese. Some guys in Olympic had tatoo in Japanese. But I often find wrong Japanese and a lot of people can't tell Japanese and Chinese.

In this topics I'll write about Japanese Characters. First, there are 3 kinds of characters in Japanese. They are "Kanji", "Hiragana" and "Katakana". Most Japanese can write more than 1,000 Kanjis. Can you imagine to learn 1,000 characters by heart? I can also write Kanji, but still I can't believe that I can. I'll write the difference of those characters in different topics which will be comming soon!

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