Hiragana Flashcards (For printing out on Avery 5371 Business Cards.) This website was co-developed by Andrea Shea (ashea@csus.edu) and Professor Masuyama (kmasuyama@csus.edu) at Sacramento State.

The Japanese language has three types of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand ...

“Dakuten” (two dots added to kana symbols to mark voicing) and “handakuten” (a small circle that is a p-sound sign attached to kana) are bigger than usual. Hiragana letters are uniquely rounde ...

It is written in old kana spelling, and hiragana with “dakuten” (two dots added to kana symbols to mark voicing) are no object. A newspaper solicited entries at the time, and it was apparently ...