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Recognition of printed hiragana
aiueo
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
g がぎぐげご
z ざじずぜぞ
d だぢづでど
b ばびぶべぼ
p ぱぴぷぺぽ
ぢ and づ are rarely used except for compound words whose second element begins with ち or つ as in the case of はなぢ(はな+ち) ‘nose-bleeding’ and こづつみ(こ+つつみ) ‘small-package’.
Cultural Note: Kanji, the origin of hiragana
Hiragana originated in the tradition of using kanji with Chinese sounds similar to Japanese syllables to represent Japanese syllables. Originally, they used original, squarely-shaped kanji for this purpose, but gradually, the tradition of using cursive styles of kanji developed, and their forms came to be conventionalized and fixed; thus present-day hiragana. Can you tell which hiragana the following kanji gave rise to?
加寸奴保女
For the answers, see the full list at the end of the hiragana practice section.
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