Japanese
Lesson 15: Hiragana 3
In this lesson you will learn to recognize the hiragana characters in the table below.
Hiragana | Romanization |
---|---|
や | ya |
し | si |
しゃ | sya |
じ | zi |
じゃ | zya |
の | no |
ま | ma |
り | ri |
る | ru |
Note the しゃ and じゃ in the table above. These are are called digraphs and consist of a combination of two characters. In a digraph the second character is smaller than normal.
じゃ is one mora long and is romanized as zyanihon-shiki or jahepburn, whereas じや is two mora long and is romanized as ziyanihon-shiki or jiyahepburn. While reading, be careful to look at the size of the second character to distinguish between these two readings.
Hiragana | a | i | u | e | o |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
- | あ | い | う | え | お |
k | か | き | く | け | こ |
s | さ | し | す | せ | そ |
t | た | ち | つ | て | と |
n | な | に | ぬ | ね | の |
h | は | ひ | ふ | へ | ほ |
m | ま | み | む | め | も |
y | や | ゆ | よ | ||
r | ら | り | る | れ | ろ |
w | わ | を | |||
n | ん |