Learn hiragana for free!

Use our hiragana chart and learn how to read and write Japanese.

If you are serious about learning Japanese, it is essential that you learn hiragana, the Japanese phonetic alphabet. Hiragana is one of three character sets used in the Japanese language, the other 2 are katakana and kanji.

Each hiragana character or letter represents a single vowel or sound, and unlike kanji, the letter itself has no meaning. The basic Japanese language is composed of 46 hiragana letters, but it doesn't stop there, you'll also need to learn additional letters. Those letters are modified hiragana characters and represent additional sounds: 20 dakuon, 5 handakuon and 36 youon.

In the hiragana chart found in the following pages, you'll have access to the whole hiragana list of characters along with their sounding equivalent and 2 word usage examples. We hope that our free hiragana chart will really help your journey to learn the Japanese alphabet.