Lessons About The Japanese Writing System

The first thing you should get acquainted with if you are beginning to learn Japanese is the way Japanese is written. Here are some posts to help you understand with the Japanese writing system:

Writing System Basics

• The Japanese Alphabet: Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji
• Japanese Writing Directions - Horizontal & Vertical
• Romaji - Reading Japanese With Our Alphabet
• When "ha" は is Pronounced "wa"
• Furigana - Reading Kanji With Kana

Special characters and symbols

• 「」 - Japanese Quotation Marks
• っ - Small Tsu つ - How It's Used
• ー - Prolonged Sound Mark

Rare kana

• ヴ - Weird "u" ウ Kana With Diacritic
• ゐ, ゑ, ヰ, ヱ - wi, we - Rare Hiragana & Katakana

Kanji

• On'yomi and Kun'yomi - Kanji Readings
• 々 - Repetition Kanji
• Kanji Radicals and Components

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