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 Hiragana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The chōon (vowel extender mark) (ー) used in katakana is rarely used with hiragana, for example in the word らーめん, ramen, but this usage is considered non-standard.
This method is used to add the diacritics to kana that are not normally used with them, for example applying the dakuten to a pure vowel or the handakuten to a kana not in the h-group.
Verb and adjective inflections, for example in tabemashita (ate, tabemashita
http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/hiragana   (1475 words)

  
 Hiragana symbols: The history and use of Japanese hiragana characters with useful hiragana-related links.
One way is in the form of okurigana, the hiragana characters added to the end of words to modify meaning.
For example, in the sentence below the particle "o" indicates that the preceding noun "pizza" is the object that was eaten.
Click on the hiragana characters below and use the animated writing instructor to learn how to write hiragana.
http://www.japanese-name-translation.com/site/hiragana_symbols.html#05   (592 words)

  
 Japanese Learning Made Easy: Your First Encounter with Hiragana
The other hiragana are, in fact, pretty easy to learn.
Good for just starting to learn hiragana because you can change to romaji to kana instantly over-and-over.
Japanese Learning Made Easy: Your First Encounter with Hiragana
http://misaiato.blogspot.com/2004/12/your-first-encounter-with-hiragana.html   (1160 words)

  
 Japanese Kana Quizzes (Hiragana & Katakana) [Flash 6]
Each time you load the quiz, the word matches are re-shuffled.
If you already read katakana and hiragana fairly well, then these are easy matches to do.
This MIGHT help you practice your katakana and hiragana reading and possibly pick up a few new words.
http://www.manythings.org/japanese/kana   (277 words)

  
 Hiragana
At the same time, how much grammar might be covered in the hiragana lessons should certainly be based on what is needed to cover the hiragana.
Accordingly it would make some sense to introduce hiragana in the context of a introduction to or review of the use of Japanese grammar.
Thus such lessons would be a bit different from more general introductions to Japanese, which attempt to build vocabulary as they introduce aspects of grammar.
http://www.ntu.edu.au/education/langs/jpn/hira/hira.htm   (373 words)

  
 ChipChat Japanese Training
ChipChat has applied the technology of the Internet to help you learn Hiragana and Katakana easily, effectively, and inexpensively.
This is your assurance that ChipChat Japanese Training will run successfully on your Java-enabled computer.
ChipChat works with any computer that can connect to the Internet with a Java-enabled browser, such as Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Internet Explorer, or Sun's HotJava.
http://www.chipchat.com/NihonGo   (315 words)

  
 TheJapanesePage.com - Learn Japanese for FREE -- How to Wow! with language, culture, kanji, and grammar
I learned how to read and write hiragana almost exclusively through this site, and I think it's a great learning tool.
IM so close to learning all the Hiragana!!
I've just finished learning hiragana, and I learnt it ONLY through this web site!!!
http://www.thejapanesepage.com/readarticle.php?article_id=2   (5587 words)

  
 Hiragana Unicode Tables easy for Japanese or English Speakers
Another reference is the Hiragana Unicode pdf file.
I use the Microsoft font "Arial Unicode MS" which shows almost all of the characters.
There is also a Katakana Unicode pdf file.
http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode/hiragana.html   (182 words)

  
 Hiragana Times - Friends Finding, Travel and Living in Japan
Free "Hiragana Times Easy" E-magazine is now available.
You can exchange information, chat and be friends with Japanese.
You may write in English, Japanese and in hiragana or Romaji.
http://www.hiraganatimes.com   (204 words)

  
 the Hiragana and Katakana Characters Explained (includes full kana charts)
This web page "The Hiragana and Katakana Explained" is based on part of a manual included with our educational software product TileTag for Kana.
You can print this table for easy reference.
These methods of writing long vowels apply for katakana as well as for hiragana, even though the examples above happen to be hiragana.
http://www.bitboost.com/TT_about-the-kana.html   (1157 words)

  
 hiragana
We use a more phonetic system than the traditional Japanese system: "cho" instead of "tyo" and "shi" instead of "si." If you refer to the vocabulary lists in each Module, you will always know how to spell correctly in hiragana.
Say the characters aloud as you write them.
Kanji, Hiragana and Katakana Games Interactive games make learning fun!
http://www.ccet.ua.edu/nihongoweb/hiragana.htm   (604 words)

  
 Hiragana
In the table below can you find what versions of SuperMemo the Hiragana collection is compatible with
To use this material you need the SuperMemo software
http://www.super-memory.com/sml/colls/hiragana.htm   (205 words)

  
 Japanese Hiragana
In each column the r& appears on the left, the hiragana symbols in the middle and the kanji from which they developed on the right.
Hiragana used in this way are known as furigana or ruby.
In early versions of hiragana there were often many different characters to represent the same syllable, however the system was eventually simplified so that there was a one-to-one relationship between spoken and written syllables.
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/japanese_hiragana.htm   (412 words)

  
 Learn Japanese (including hiragana, katakana, kanji)
QuickScholar Software is dedicated to providing the finest quality programs that teach the Japanese language.
The downloaded file installs on most computers in about 15 seconds -- so start learning Japanese right now for free.
Learn to read and write the Japanese language character sets (hiragana, katakana, and kanji) quickly, easily, and inexpensively.
http://www.quickscholar.com   (220 words)

  
 : ReadWrite Hiragana, review at WorldSSP.net
Click here for a complete list of Declan Software products ReadWrite Hiragana - 1.0ReadWrite Hiragana teaches the Japanese hiragana alphabet.
Declan Software's Japanese Language Learning Software - ReadWrite Hiragana - InfoRank:
ReadWrite Hiragana, download, review, free, freeware,Behind Asterisks XP This nifty software allows users to decrypt passwords hidden under asterisks "*" characters.
http://www.worldssp.net/webinfo.asp?proid=7549   (424 words)

  
 J-List side blog: Japanese language overview: Hiragana (the wavy kind)
Finally, the last hiragana below is the kana for "n", the only kana that doesn't end with a vowel.
should be a useful workbook for learning both hiragana and katakana.
There exist textbooks in which a student would see all examples in Japanese, but written in the roman alphabet (i.e., "Piitaa wa Toukyou e ikimashita"), rather than in the Japanese writing systems of hiragana, katakana and kanji.
http://www.peterpayne.net/2003/03/japanese-language-overview-hiragana.html   (1575 words)

  
 Monotype Imaging: Hiragana Fonts
The Hiragana font can be found in the non-Latin multilingual font library from Monotype Imaging®.
Derived originally from cursive forms of Kanji, Hiragana is used for the grammatical morphemes (elements) of a sentence, e.g.
Kanji is based on Chinese characters which we shall consider ideographic for the sake of simplicity, while Kana (both Hiragana and Katakana) is syllabic.
http://www.hiragana-fonts.com   (212 words)

  
 Hiragana and Katakana 1.0.7 – Mac OS X – VersionTracker
You can be tested to match a character to its romanized pronunication, or you can be tested the other way around.
Hiragana and Katakana 1.0.7 – Mac OS X – VersionTracker
Download Hiragana and Katakana Now (File Size: 360k)
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/12935   (262 words)

  
 All About Hiragana
However, Kûkai's Hiragana were simplified from the entire Kanji instead of just a radical, or sub-part.
Similiar to the Katakana, each Hiragana symbol was simplified from a Chinese character that was being used to represent a sound, like a Kanji alphabet.
These children write with Hiragana instead of Kanji until their knowledge of Kanji increases.
http://www.joyo96.org/Hiragana.html   (459 words)

  
 Japanese Hiragana Characters with Speech
The keyword of "Level" in the table is the level for the dictation quizzes.
One Hiragana is consist of one consonant and one vowel in Romaji.
Masayoshi Kanai in Japanese, and a site of " Let's learn Hiragana" by Japan Window Project.
http://sp.cis.iwate-u.ac.jp/sp/lesson/j/doc/kana.html   (140 words)

  
 TileTag: A computer game teaches the Japanese kana (hiragana and katakana) characters to help you learn faster. [Kana ...
schedule or the innovative Jorden/JWL schedule (full version of TileTag only.) And naturally you can learn hiragana before katakana, or vice versa, or switch back and forth....
TileTag: A computer game teaches the Japanese kana (hiragana and katakana) characters to help you learn faster.
You can also buy TileSet Creator for TileTag to customize TileTag for any characters, any language, any subject.
http://www.bitboost.com/TT_about.html   (489 words)

  
 Kanji-Step - Japanese Language Resource Center - Hiragana Steps
We recommend to use Netscape Navigator 3.0 or higher.
Kanji-Step - Japanese Language Resource Center - Hiragana Steps
http://www.kanjistep.com/en/online/hiraganasteps   (28 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Let's Learn Hiragana (Kodansha's Children's Classics): Books: Yasuko Kosaka Mitamura
This book doesnt just teach the characters, you learn grammar, word structure, sentence structure, and special use situations as well.
So, not only are you learning hiragana, you are also learning some more usefull japanese vocabulary.
Let's Learn Hiragana is a classic in the field, and the huge number of students that have used it successfully is a sign of its preeminence as a self-study guide.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0870117092?v=glance   (1573 words)

  
 Type & Learn - Hiragana
Allows you to learn languages step-by-step while typing.
Whether you are a native speaker or a second language learner, Type & Learn - Hiragana is a breeze to learn and simple to use.
This practical, step-by-step self-paced training course is a complete study guide for anyone who wants to learn and master Hiragana.
http://lp-group.com/store/tl_hiragana.html   (256 words)

  
 LJR's Nihongo: Hiragana
In this 1 time download software package you get:
Overall Japanese Hiragana Profiency %, the program will actually tell you when you have learned that Kana.
A personalized Stats reporter, so you can monitor which areas you are good in, and which areas you need more development in.
http://games.byond.com/hub/LordJR/LJRsNihongoHiragana   (238 words)

  
 Hiragana & Katakana on Jillstar
Kanji represents objects and/or ideas (over 2000 currently in use today).
Katakana is used for writing foreign names, places, and words (Japan uses many words borrowed from other languages).
Japanese is written in three different scripts: hiragana, katakana and kanji.
http://www.jillstar.com/japHirKatInfo.htm   (147 words)

  
 Declan Software's Japanese Language Learning Software
Over 3000 examples of the use of the kanji included
Numerous examples of each letter with native audio
Writing stroke order animations of all hiragana letters
http://www.declan-software.com/japanese   (154 words)

  
 Kanji Game, a free program for studying Japanese characters. Learn Hiragana, Katakana, compounds, and vocabulary.
Start KANJI GAME HIRAGANA and KATAKANA GAME COMPOUNDS GAME in new window.
Start KANJI GAME HIRAGANA and KATAKANA GAME COMPOUNDS GAME here.
Kanji Game is program to facilitate the memorization of Japanese vocabulary words and characters.
http://www.msu.edu/~lakejess/kanjigame.html   (875 words)

  
 JapanCorner - The Benihana Guide to Japan
Hiragana is also used to write other parts of speech such as articles, particles, conjunctions, etc. Some examples of this are:
Japanese is written using a combination of hiragana, katakana and kanji, each having a specific function.
Subscript versions of certain hiragana letters are placed after other letters, in order to create more complex sounds.
http://www.japancorner.com/hiragana.asp   (441 words)

  
 learn hiragana. Japanese kana, kanji etc.
Hiragana can be used to express and write all Japanese words without the use of kanji since hiragana is like an alphabet.
Hiragana is used for changing meanings of kanji by adding a hiragana character after the kanji.
Often you can see them together with a kanji to form a word.
http://www.euroasiasoftware.com/english/japanese/learn/hiraganatable.htm   (220 words)

  
 Hiragana Translator
This is the Hiragana translation with the image design and creation that you have been looking for.
Hiragana is basically phonetic alphabet which means a Hiragana symbol is created by the sound of characters.
Hiragana is more rounded and circular symbols and often used to write the grammatical parts of sentences in which the allocation of Kanji is not appropriate.
http://www.dsfy.com/tattoo_design/hiragana   (1225 words)

  
 Japanese Writing
Hiragana is the first writing system taught to Japanese children, so low-level children's books are written exclusively in hiragana, and even in more advanced level texts, difficult kanji will have the pronunciation written above in hiragana.
These two basic writing systems share most rules, but lengthening vowel sounds and making consonant sounds harder are done differently in the two sets.
As of now, it does not deal with transliteration, dipthongs, why the characters are organized the way they are, or any other writing conventions; it is only meant to help learn individual characters.
http://members.aol.com/writejapan   (958 words)

  
 Mainichi-Kanji
This table contains the basic 46 hiragana characters, as well as the modified (assimilated), obsolete, and combined characters.
http://mainichi.incors.com/hiraganatable.php3   (35 words)

  
 Otaku Oracle [O2] // The Perfect Place for Us Otaku
Hiragana is also used for verb endings, particles.
This is little hiragana printed near the kanji to help people read it if they do not know what the kanji stands for.
There are very few people in Japanese that know all of the Kanji in the Japanese language.
http://www.geocities.com/sykick2314/japanese_hiragana.html   (126 words)

  
 Hiragana & Katakana
For further information on hiragana and katakana and how they function in Japanese, see the Japanese Writing System.
However, the fact that katakana is used to write foreign words gives rise to some special features (see Tables 4 and 5 of katakana).
Apart from the shape of the letters, there's little difference between them.
http://www.cjvlang.com/Writing/writsys/hiragkatak.html   (101 words)

  
 Japanese kanji, hiragana, katakana, Japanese alphabets
If you see a word written in Katakana you know that it is one which has been imported from a foreign language.
There are 46 different characters each of which represent a different sound.
You will often see small Hiragana characters above or below Kanji to indicate how the Kanji should be pronounced.
http://www.futureimplications.com/kanji_katakana_hiragana/kanji.htm   (321 words)

  
 Hiragana Challenge
The objective of this game is to remove all the Hiragana letters from the screen by clicking them in gojuuon order as quickly as possible.
For example, the first hiragana to click is "a", followed by "i" etc. Each incorrect answer, however, will have a 10 second penalty.
You can return to this page any time from the game by clicking the button.
http://tell.fll.purdue.edu/ultimate/hiragana.htm   (81 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Hiragana Cards 2: Software
Hiragana must be learned by any serious student of Japanese, and this program makes learning Japanese hiragana fun.
Three drills are included: 1) a self test that can be customized to run at a speed comfortable for you, 2) an elimination drill that allows you to focus on those hiragana that are most challenging for you, 3) a matching game to help learn to master matching hiragana to their romanizations.
This program focuses on the study of Japanese hiragana.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0009EWUQE/timsjour2-20?dev-t=DQRHQF14K2WD2&camp=2025&link_code=sp1   (353 words)

  
 Japanese - hiragana, katakana, kanji, romaji
Chinese characters were also used for their phonetic values to write grammatical elements and these characters were simplified and eventually became two syllabic scripts, hiragana and katakana.
Over time a writing system emerged in which Chinese characters were used to write either words borrowed from Chinese or Japanese words with the same or similar meanings.
Modern Japanese texts may also include r&, (Roman letters), the standard way of writing Japanese with the Latin alphabet, eimoji (English script), non-Japanese words written in their own script and various symbols known as kigō.
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/japanese.htm   (335 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Let's Learn Hiragana: First Book of Japanese Writing: Books
I was amazed of how easy it was to learn hiragana with this book.
This is the best place to start learning hiragana.
Publisher: learn how customers can search inside this book.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0870117092   (742 words)

  
 All About Katakana
Each Katakana symbol was derived from a Chinese character in the same way as each Hiragana symbol, except that the Hiragana were simplified from entire characters.
http://www.joyo96.org/Katakana.html   (603 words)

  
 Production First Software Encyclopedia of Typography and Electronic Communication : H
The implementation of hinting for low resolution raster output devices like computer monitor screens is different, and a different strategy is required than for other output devices.
hiragana A syllable-based collection of phonetic elements used to write Japanese words.
About 60% of the characters used in Japanese typically are hiragana.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/profirst/h.htm   (3627 words)

  
 learn hiragana on 43 Things
I will call this one done when I rewrite all my flashcards which are in romanji into hiragana.
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http://www.43things.com/things/view/327290   (177 words)

  
 Kanji To Hiragana Converter - Dashboard - Reference
Any questions, complaints or claims regarding the applications must be directed to the appropriate software vendor.
This simple widget allows users to enter Japanese text, and upon submission are taken to a web-based browser that converts the text to Hiragana with further options to convert to Romaji, and word-by-word translation.
Kanji To Hiragana Converter - Dashboard - Reference
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/reference/kanjitohiraganaconverter.html   (113 words)

  
 Hiragana table
As you know, some of the hiragana have different pronunciations from what you might expect them to have.
You may think the vowel "i" works almost like "yi".
Since Japanese characters are ordinarily written vertically from top to bottom, the table items are written in that way.
http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/~ts/japanese/table.html   (342 words)

  
 Microsoft Office Assistance: Switch between hiragana and katakana in Japanese text
The feature described in this Help topic is only available if support for Japanese is enabled through Microsoft Office Language Settings.
Select the text that you want to change to hiragana or katakana.
Katakana to change hiragana to katakana characters, or
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP052510381033.aspx   (109 words)

  
 Nihongo o Narau - Hiragana
To see how to write each of the hiragana go
Hiragana is kind of like the Japanese alphabet.
These are the characters used to form Japanese words.
http://www.learn-japanese.info/hiragana.html   (102 words)

  
 kana chart (kanachart.com) - with hiragana, katakana, and kanji japanese symbols or characters
hiragana and katakana alphabets are arranged by their starting letter; just click on the letter you want.
japanese symbols for beginners at kana chart (kanachart.com) with hiragana, katakana and kanji.
kc says: the hiragana alphabet is the primary native japanese alphabet, it can be used to phonetically write all native japanese words.
http://www.kanachart.com   (176 words)

  
 AnnouncingJapanese Alphabet Hiragana Katakana
Japanese at some time in the future, I would need to know
of both the Hiragana and Katakana syllabaries, however.
both Hiragana and Katakana, so I attempted to teach myself
http://home.inter.net/kenbutler/JapaneseAlphabet.html   (265 words)

  
 Hiragana - Test for Unicode support in Web browsers
Hiragana is a cursive kana (Japanese syllabic writing system), used in modern Japanese mainly for grammatical morphemes.
Hiragana - Test for Unicode support in Web browsers
Created 3rd February 1999 Last updated 28th November 2005
http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/hiragana.html   (250 words)

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