Hiragana
is more rounded script and used to write the grammatical
parts of words and sentence espeically when Kanji is
not appropriate for writing.
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| The
meaning of this sentence is 'Very Har' and written
by using both Kanji and Hiragana script. The first
3 characters are Hiragana, the 4th character is
Kanji and the last 2 characters are Hiragana. |
Unlike
Kanji, Hiragana was developed by Japanese people, and
today, all the Japanese Children learn Hiragana to write
first and then step up to Kanji characters as they grow.
Hiragana
is basically phonetic alphabet which means a Hiragana
symbol is created by the sound of characters.
There are 46 Hiragana symbols.
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46 Hiragana Chart |