Let's write KATAKANA Katakana-o kakoo

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 KATAKANA.
Katakana is used basically to write foreign loan-words and onomatopoeia.

KATAKANA chart

Please click each letter to jump to animated KANAs. You can see how to write them.
You can also get a katakana 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 katakanas.

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