There are three kinds of letters in Japanese; HIRAGANA, KATAKANA, and KANJI.
Japanese KANA are syllabic letters.
Japanese ni-ho-n-go is written like this by HIRAGANA.Hiragana is used for writing ordinary Japanese words.
HIRAGANA chart
Please click each letter to jump to animated KANAs. You can see how to write them.
You can also get a hiragana chart (gif file) here.
a  | i  | u  | e  | o  |
ka  | ki  | ku  | ke  | ko  |
sa  | shi  | su  | se  | so  |
ta  | chi  | tsu  | te  | to  |
na  | ni  | nu  | ne  | no  |
ha  | hi  | hu /fu  | he  | ho  |
ma  | mi  | mu  | me  | mo  |
ya  | yu  | yo  | ||
ra  | ri  | ru  | re  | ro  |
wa  | o  | |||
n  |
There are also two dashes or one circle hiraganas.
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