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ゅうご jūgo fifteen is pronounced as if it was jū and go stacked end to end d͡ʑɯːɡo 14 in many accents the j and z sounds are pronounced as affricates d͡ʑ and d͡z respectively at the beginning of utterances and fricatives ʑ z in the middle of words for example すうじ sūji sɯːʑi number ざっし zasshi d͡zaɕɕi magazine the singular n is pronounced m before m b and p n before plosives t d affricates ch ts j r n and z ŋ before k and g ɴ at the end of utterances and some kind of high nasal vowel ɰ̃ before vowels palatal approximants y and some fricative consonants s sh h f and w citation needed in kanji readings the grapheme combinations ou and ei are usually pronounced oː long o and eː long e respectively for example とうきょう lit toukyou is pronounced toːkʲoː tokyo and せんせい sensei is seɯ̃seː teacher however とう tou is pronounced toɯ to inquire because the o and u are considered distinct u being the verb ending in the dictionary form similarly している shite iru is pronounced ɕiteiɾɯ present progressive form of する suru to do in archaic forms of japanese there existed the kwa くゎ kʷa and gwa ぐゎ ɡʷa digraphs in modern japanese these phonemes have been phased out of usage citation needed spelling rules edit see also kanazukai with a few exceptions such as for the three particles は pronounced wa instead of ha へ pronounced e instead of he and o written を instead of お japanese when written in kana is phonemically orthographic i e there is a one to one correspondence between kana characters and sounds leaving only words pitch accent unrepresented this has not always been the case a previous system of spelling now referred to as historical kana usage differed substantially from pronunciation the three above mentioned exceptions in modern usage are the legacy of that system there are two hiragana pronounced ji じ and ぢ and two hiragana pronounced zu ず and づ but to distinguish them particularly when typing japanese sometimes ぢ is written as di and づ is written as du these pairs are not interchangeable usually ji is written as じ and zu is written as ず there are some exceptions if the first two syllables of a word consist of one syllable without a dakuten and the same syllable with a dakuten the same hiragana is used to write the sounds for example chijimeru to boil down or to shrink is spelled ちぢめる and tsuzuku to continue is つづく for compound words where the dakuten reflects rendaku voicing the original hiragana is used for example chi 血 blood is spelled ち in plain hiragana when 鼻 hana nose and 血 chi blood combine to make hanaji 鼻血 nose bleed the sound of 血 changes from chi to ji so hanaji is spelled はなぢ similarly tsukau 使う 遣う to use is spelled つかう in hiragana so kanazukai 仮名遣い kana use or kana orthography is spelled かなづかい in hiragana however there are cases where ぢ and づ are not used such as the word for lightning inazuma 稲妻 the first component 稲 meaning rice plant is written いな ina the second component 妻 etymologically 夫 meaning spouse is pronounced つま tsuma when standalone or often as づま zuma when following another syllable such in 人妻 hitozuma married woman even though these components of 稲妻 are etymologically linked to lightning it is generally arduous for a contemporary speaker to consciously perceive inazuma as separable into two discrete words thus the default spelling いなずま is used instead of いなづま other examples include kizuna きずな and sakazuki さかずき although these rules were officially established by a cabinet notice in 1986 revising the modern kana usage they have sometimes faced criticism due to their perceived arbitrariness officially ぢ and づ do not occur word initially pursuant to modern spelling rules there were words such as ぢばん jiban ground in the historical kana usage but they were unified under じ in the modern kana usage in 1946 so today it is spelled exclusively じばん however づら zura wig from かつら katsura and づけ zuke a sushi term for lean tuna soaked in soy sauce are examples of word initial づ today no standard japanese words begin with the kana ん n this is the basis of the word game shiritori ん n is normally treated as its own syllable and is separate from the other n based kana na ni etc ん is sometimes directly followed by a vowel a i u e or o or a palatal approximant ya yu or yo these are clearly distinct from the na ni etc syllables and there are minimal pairs such as きんえん kin en smoking forbidden きねん kinen commemoration きんねん kinnen recent years in hepburn romanization they are distinguished with an apostrophe but not all romanization methods make the distinction for example past prime minister junichiro koizumi s first name is actually じゅんいちろう jun ichirō pronounced dʑɯɰ̃itɕiɾoː there are a few hiragana that are rarely used outside of okinawan orthography ゐ wi i and ゑ we e are only used in some proper names 𛀁 e was an alternate version of え e before spelling reform and was briefly reused for ye during initial spelling reforms but is now completely obsolete ゔ vu is a modern addition used to represent the v sound in foreign languages such as english but since japanese from a phonological standpoint does not have a v sound it is pronounced as b and mostly serves as a more accurate indicator of a word s pronunciation in its original language however it is rarely seen because loanwords and transliterated words are usually written in katakana where the corresponding character would be written as ヴ the digraphs ぢゃ ぢゅ ぢょ for ja ju jo are theoretically possible in rendaku but are nearly never used in modern kana usage for example the word 夫婦茶碗 meoto jawan couple bowls spelled めおとぢゃわん where 茶碗 alone is spelled ちゃわん chawan the みゅ myu kana is extremely rare in originally japanese words linguist haruhiko kindaichi raises the example of the japanese family name omamyūda 小豆生田 and claims it is the only occurrence amongst pure japanese words its katakana counterpart is used in many loanwords however obsolete kana edit this article contains uncommon unicode characters without proper rendering support you may see question marks boxes or other symbols instead of the intended characters hentaigana edit main article hentaigana in the japanese writing system hentaigana 変体仮名 are variant forms of hiragana 15 polysyllabic kana edit main article kana ligature e and i edit on the row beginning with わ wa the hiragana ゐ wi and ゑ we are both quasi obsolete only used in some names they are usually respectively pronounced i and e in modified hepburn romanization they are generally written as i and e 12 in modern orthography the phonemes wi and we are transcribed in loanwords and names from other languages as うぃ ウィ and うぇ ウェ yi ye and wu edit yi edit see also yi kana it has not been demonstrated whether the mora ji existed in old japanese though ye did appear in some textbooks during the meiji period along with another kana for yi in the form of cursive 以 today it is considered a hentaigana by scholars and is encoded in unicode 10 16 𛀆 17 18 this kana could have a colloquial use to convert the combo yui ゆい into yii 𛀆 い due to other japanese words having a similar change 19 ye edit see also ye kana an early now obsolete hiragana esque form of ye may have existed 𛀁 je 20 in pre classical japanese prior to the advent of kana but is generally represented for purposes of reconstruction by the kanji 江 and its hiragana form is not present in any known orthography in modern orthography ye can also be written as いぇ イェ in katakana 衣 江 hiragana え 𛀁 katakana 𛀀 エ while hiragana and katakana letters for ye were used for a short period after the advent of kana the distinction between ye and e disappeared before glyphs could become established wu edit see also wu kana it has not been demonstrated whether the mora wu existed in old japanese however hiragana wu also appeared in different meiji era textbooks 21 although there are several possible source kanji it is likely to have been derived from a cursive form of the man yōgana 汙 although a related variant sometimes listed is from a cursive form of 紆 22 however it was never commonly used 23 this character is included in unicode 14 as hiragana letter archaic wu 19 history edit see also man yōgana and old japanese sources and dating hiragana originated from the cursive forms of kanji hiragana character shapes were derived from chinese cursive script sōsho shown here is a sample of cursive script by 7th century calligrapher sun guoting note the character 為 wei indicated by the red arrow closely resembles the hiragana character ゐ wi hiragana developed from man yōgana chinese characters used for their pronunciations a practice that started in the 5th century 24 the gojūon arrangement is thought to have been influenced by both the siddhaṃ script used for writing sanskrit and the chinese fanqie system 25 26 the monk kūkai introduced the siddhaṃ script to japan in 806 on his return from china belonging to the brahmic family of scripts the sanskrit ordering of letters was used for it buddhist monks who invented katakana chose to use the word order of sanskrit and siddham since important buddhist writings were written with those alphabets 27 the forms of the hiragana originate from the cursive script style of chinese calligraphy the table to the right shows the derivation of hiragana from manyōgana via cursive script the left part shows the character in the regular script form the center character in red shows the cursive script form of the character and the right shows the equivalent hiragana the cursive script forms are not strictly confined to those in the illustration the oldest examples of man yōgana include the inariyama sword an iron sword excavated at the inariyama kofun this sword is thought to be made in the year 辛亥年 most commonly taken to be c e 471 28 when it was first developed hiragana was not accepted by everyone the educated or elites preferred to use only the kanji system historically in japan the regular script kaisho form of the characters was used by men and called otokode 男手 men s writing while the cursive script sōsho form of the kanji was used by women hence hiragana first gained popularity among women who were generally not allowed access to the same levels of education as men thus hiragana was first widely used among court women in the writing of personal communications and literature 29 from this comes the alternative name of onnade 女手 women s writing 30 for example the tale of genji and other early novels by female authors used hiragana extensively or exclusively even today hiragana is felt to have a feminine quality 31 male authors came to write literature using hiragana hiragana was used for unofficial writing such as personal letters while katakana and kanji were used for official documents in modern times the usage of hiragana has become mixed with katakana writing katakana is now relegated to special uses such as recently borrowed words i e since the 19th century names in transliteration the names of animals in telegrams and for emphasis originally for all syllables there was more than one possible hiragana in 1900 the system was simplified so each syllable had only one hiragana the deprecated hiragana are now known as hentaigana 変体仮名 the pangram poem iroha uta abc song poem which dates to the 10th century uses every hiragana once except n ん which was a variant of む before the muromachi era stroke order and direction edit the following table shows the method for writing each hiragana character the table is arranged in a traditional manner beginning top right and reading columns down the numbers and arrows indicate the stroke order and direction respectively unicode edit main articles hiragana unicode block kana supplement unicode block kana extended a unicode block kana extended b unicode block and small kana extension unicode block hiragana was added to the unicode standard in october 1991 with the release of version 1 0 the unicode block for hiragana is u 3040 u 309f hiragana 1 2 official unicode consortium code chart pdf 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f u 304x ぁ あ ぃ い ぅ う ぇ え ぉ お か が き ぎ く u 305x ぐ け げ こ ご さ ざ し じ す ず せ ぜ そ ぞ た u 306x だ ち ぢ っ つ づ て で と ど な に ぬ ね の は u 307x ば ぱ ひ び ぴ ふ ぶ ぷ へ べ ぺ ほ ぼ ぽ ま み u 308x む め も ゃ や ゅ ゆ ょ よ ら り る れ ろ ゎ わ u 309x ゐ ゑ を ん ゔ ゕ ゖ ゙ ゚ ゝ ゞ ゟ notes 1 as of unicode version 18 0 2 grey areas indicate non assigned code points the unicode hiragana block contains precomposed characters for all hiragana in the modern set including small vowels and yōon kana for compound syllables as well as the rare ゐ wi and ゑ we the archaic 𛀁 ye is included in plane 1 at u 1b001 see below all combinations of hiragana with dakuten and handakuten used in modern japanese are available as precomposed characters including the rare ゔ vu and can also be produced by using a base hiragana followed by the combining dakuten and handakuten characters u 3099 and u 309a respectively 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 characters u 3095 and u 3096 are small か ka and small け ke respectively u 309f is a ligature of より yori occasionally used in vertical text u 309b and u 309c are spacing non combining equivalents to the combining dakuten and handakuten characters respectively historic and variant forms of japanese kana characters were first added to the unicode standard in october 2010 with the release of version 6 0 with significantly more added in 2017 as part of unicode 10 the unicode block for kana supplement is u 1b000 u 1b0ff and is immediately followed by the kana extended a block u 1b100 u 1b12f these blocks include mainly hentaigana historic or variant hiragana kana supplement 1 official unicode consortium code chart pdf 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f u 1b00x 𛀀 𛀁 𛀂 𛀃 𛀄 𛀅 𛀆 𛀇 𛀈 𛀉 𛀊 𛀋 𛀌 𛀍 𛀎 𛀏 u 1b01x 𛀐 𛀑 𛀒 𛀓 𛀔 𛀕 𛀖 𛀗 𛀘 𛀙 𛀚 𛀛 𛀜 𛀝 𛀞 𛀟 u 1b02x 𛀠 𛀡 𛀢 𛀣 𛀤 𛀥 𛀦 𛀧 𛀨 𛀩 𛀪 𛀫 𛀬 𛀭 𛀮 𛀯 u 1b03x 𛀰 𛀱 𛀲 𛀳 𛀴 𛀵 𛀶 𛀷 𛀸 𛀹 𛀺 𛀻 𛀼 𛀽 𛀾 𛀿 u 1b04x 𛁀 𛁁 𛁂 𛁃 𛁄 𛁅 𛁆 𛁇 𛁈 𛁉 𛁊 𛁋 𛁌 𛁍 𛁎 𛁏 u 1b05x 𛁐 𛁑 𛁒 𛁓 𛁔 𛁕 𛁖 𛁗 𛁘 𛁙 𛁚 𛁛 𛁜 𛁝 𛁞 𛁟 u 1b06x 𛁠 𛁡 𛁢 𛁣 𛁤 𛁥 𛁦 𛁧 𛁨 𛁩 𛁪 𛁫 𛁬 𛁭 𛁮 𛁯 u 1b07x 𛁰 𛁱 𛁲 𛁳 𛁴 𛁵 𛁶 𛁷 𛁸 𛁹 𛁺 𛁻 𛁼 𛁽 𛁾 𛁿 u 1b08x 𛂀 𛂁 𛂂 𛂃 𛂄 𛂅 𛂆 𛂇 𛂈 𛂉 𛂊 𛂋 𛂌 𛂍 𛂎 𛂏 u 1b09x 𛂐 𛂑 𛂒 𛂓 𛂔 𛂕 𛂖 𛂗 𛂘 𛂙 𛂚 𛂛 𛂜 𛂝 𛂞 𛂟 u 1b0ax 𛂠 𛂡 𛂢 𛂣 𛂤 𛂥 𛂦 𛂧 𛂨 𛂩 𛂪 𛂫 𛂬 𛂭 𛂮 𛂯 u 1b0bx 𛂰 𛂱 𛂲 𛂳 𛂴 𛂵 𛂶 𛂷 𛂸 𛂹 𛂺 𛂻 𛂼 𛂽 𛂾 𛂿 u 1b0cx 𛃀 𛃁 𛃂 𛃃 𛃄 𛃅 𛃆 𛃇 𛃈 𛃉 𛃊 𛃋 𛃌 𛃍 𛃎 𛃏 u 1b0dx 𛃐 𛃑 𛃒 𛃓 𛃔 𛃕 𛃖 𛃗 𛃘 𛃙 𛃚 𛃛 𛃜 𛃝 𛃞 𛃟 u 1b0ex 𛃠 𛃡 𛃢 𛃣 𛃤 𛃥 𛃦 𛃧 𛃨 𛃩 𛃪 𛃫 𛃬 𛃭 𛃮 𛃯 u 1b0fx 𛃰 𛃱 𛃲 𛃳 𛃴 𛃵 𛃶 𛃷 𛃸 𛃹 𛃺 𛃻 𛃼 𛃽 𛃾 𛃿 notes 1 as of unicode version 18 0 kana extended a 1 2 official unicode consortium code chart pdf 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f u 1b10x 𛄀 𛄁 𛄂 𛄃 𛄄 𛄅 𛄆 𛄇 𛄈 𛄉 𛄊 𛄋 𛄌 𛄍 𛄎 𛄏 u 1b11x 𛄐 𛄑 𛄒 𛄓 𛄔 𛄕 𛄖 𛄗 𛄘 𛄙 𛄚 𛄛 𛄜 𛄝 𛄞 u 1b12x notes 1 as of unicode version 18 0 2 grey areas indicate non assigned code points the unicode block for kana extended b is u 1aff0 u 1afff kana extended b 1 2 official unicode consortium code chart pdf 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f u 1affx notes 1 as of unicode version 18 0 2 grey areas indicate non assigned code points the unicode block for small kana extension is u 1b130 u...