Japanese language, or Nihongo, uses up to four separate writing systems:
Romaji – The transliteration of Japanese using western letters.
Hiragana and Katakana – The two phonetic systems used in Japanese. They are based on syllables, rather than letters. In general, all Japanese words are written in Hiragana and all foreign words are written in Katakana.
Kanji – Japanese language has approximately 5,000 Chinese symbols or Kanji, out of which 2,000 are commonly used, and close to 1,000 are learned in grade school. MORE
The following charts present all the sounds used in Japanese in Romaji, Hiragana & Katakana.
Read from top to bottom and from right to left.
Basic Modified Modified: ya yu yo Long Vowels/Double Consonants Top
Basic Modified Modified: ya yu yo Long Vowels/Double Consonants Top
Basic Modified Modified: ya yu yo Long Vowels/Double Consonants Top
Basic Modified Modified: ya yu yo Long Vowels/Double Consonants Top
