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Learn hiragana by typing the roman characters into the field. This game is a fun and free way to help you memorize the hiragana characters.
You’ll be reading Japanese in no time. This online game is recommended for students by many teachers world wide. Read more
Hiragana (ひらがな) is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana, kanji, and the Latin alphabet (Rōmaji)
Hiragana are used for words for which there are no kanji, including particles such as kara から “from”, and suffixes such as ~san さん “Mr., Mrs., Miss, Ms.” Hiragana are also used in words for which the kanji form is not known to the writer or readers, or is too formal for the writing purpose. Verb and adjective inflections, as, for example, be-ma-shi-ta (べました) in tabemashita (食べました, “ate”), are written in hiragana. In this case, part of the root is also written in kanji. Hiragana are also used to give the pronunciation of kanji in a reading aid called furigana. Read more
