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Readthe following Hiragana.

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fr> f/\ K d3

+r
{c k v\ J
h 10 j

1 1 *>v' (love) l2 v. .i- ( house) 13 )Z (top;

14 Z (pi.ture) 1 5 *s *: v. ( many)

Write the following Hiragana.

au (meet)

ee (yes)

o i (nephew)

iie (no)

aoi (blue)
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Write the following Hiragana.

a i (love) 2 ie (house) oi (nephew)

u e (top) 5 ?u (meet) ii (good)

7 iu (say) 8 e e ( yes)

9 iie (no) 10 aoi(blue)

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ke

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Read the following Hiragana.
l f : 2 3 3 tI 5 a

#3 (oyster) f. ( (write) *

I : - (here) 1 0 W (hair) 11 *'i (buy;

T2 b< (be open) 1 3 v. Li (pond) T4 : i (voice)

\ 1 ,
15 ,LS (staition)

Write the following H iragana.

kako (past)

ku ki (stern)

ko ke (moss)

k o i (carp)

akai (red)
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Writc the following Hiragana.

?U (meet) oi (nephew) ue (top)

ka k i (oyster) kiku (hear) koke (moss)

iku (go) 8 ike (pond) aki (autumn)

10 kau (buy) 11 o k u ( p u t ) 12 kao (face)

13 e k i ( s t a t i o n ) l4 akai (red)

15 ookii (big)

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SA

shi

SU

SE

SO

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Read the following Hiragana.
1 E 2 L f t 5

, ' 3 ( u m b r e l la ) b l,- (leg,foot) v.f (chair)

-f l,- (
[t 5 (this morning) 1 0 L *i (salt) 11 sushi)

T2 6 -lf (sweat) 13 f:L (abir) 7 4 t i. V. (*orld)

15 .fjv. L v. (aeticious)

Write the following Hiragana.

1 asa (morning)

ishi (stone)

suki (like)

seki (seat)

soko (there)

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Write the following Hiragana.

isu (chair) 2 kasa (umbrella) 3 ashi (leg,o

f ot)

4 s a k e ( J a p a n e sw
eine) 5 usui (thin)

6 sekai (world) 7 sukoshi (a bit)

8 osoi(slow) 9 okashi (sweet)

1 0 a s o k o ( o v e rt h e r e )

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ta
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chi
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tfl
ft
chi

tsu

te

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Readthe following Hiragana.
l t : 2 t, 2 5 L

L/: (under) ) tt (house) ( <> (shoes)

10 < t (outside) 11 * /: ( north)

T2 UL (seven) 1 3 b:tv' (t ot; 74 t l-< (and)

15 * i L L v . ( t r t ed a y b e f o r ey e s t e r d a y )

Write the following Hiragana.

uta (song)

kuchi (mouth)

it s u (when)

otoko (man)

c h i k a t e t s u( u n d er g r o u n d )

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Write the following Hiragana.

shita (under) ichi (one) ?to ( after )

takai ( e x p e n s i v e h, i g h ) tsukue (desk)

ikutsu (howmany) chikai (near)

k o t o s h i ( t t r i sy e a r ) soshite (and)

10 itsuka (sth) 11 ashita (tomorrow)

12 ch iisai (small)

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fle

flo

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Readthe following Hiragana.
1 rs 2 [: r) ta 5 A

le:s (summer) [: L (west) * n (silk)

b tJ (older sister) 1o rso rt' (zth) 11 l: ( (meat)

1 2 *.;/* i' (stomach) 13 i'r: (cat) 14 t rs (sand)

15 t:o) L v. (en;oyable)

Write the following Hiragana.

kuni (country)

i nu ( d o g )

okane (money)

kitanai (dirty)

otoko no ko (bov)

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Write the following Hiragana.

I naka (inside) 2 ant (olderbrother) 3 netsu (fever)

4 kono (this) 5 senaka (back)

6 otona (adult) 7 kanai (wife)

8 okan€ (money) 9 sakana (fish)

1 0 i c h i n i c h i ( o n ed a y )

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ha

hi
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fu

he

ho

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Read the following Hir agana.

i* tl- 3 "5' cf

l* /* (flower) U t <t (one) ; ( (clothes)

':/: (poor at) 1 0 i* L v. (want ) 11 0*v. ( yer)

1 3 "5.:tr. (ZttO; -\V\ (fense)

T2 0 ( v. (low) L4

15 [* L (star)

Write the following Hiragana.

hako (box)

hito (people)

f utoi (ttrict<)

h e i s hi ( s o l d i e r )

hosoi (thin)

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Write the following Hiragana.

t hashi fune (ship) 3 hoka ( other )

( b r i d g e ,c h o p s t i c k )

hachi (eightb
, ee) hata (flag) hone (bone)

hito (people) f u ku (clothes) h e t a ( p o o ra t )

1 0 s o f u ( g r a n df a t h e r ) 1 t h a t a c h i ( 2 0 y e a r so l d )

12 fukai (deep) i 3 h a n a s h i( t a t t )

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ma
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mu

fne

mo
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Read the following Hiragana.
1 * z h 3 t r a> 6

/r * .i- (name) ^ta h (south) F {; v. (cold)

tr f D (daughter) 10 0>/J-60 (driuk) l1 ) 4 (sea)

7 2 -tl * V. (narrow) 13 v.r6 (always) 74 tr f : (son)

15 :t i> /: v' ( cold)

Write the following Hiragana.

hima (free)

michi (road)

ame (rain)

muika (6th)

nimotsu (baggage)

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Write the following Hiragana.

machi (town) 2 kami (paper) 3 nomu (drink)

4 mise (shop) 5 kumo (cloud) 6 ima (now)

7 mae (before) 8 im i (meaning) 9 mata (again)

10 kaimono (shopping)

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ya 4 -'Y7

yu
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ya

yu
w
yo

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Read the following Hiragana.

s [9 T

^"f (room) t@f' (floor) f fu (read)

+ * (mountain) W e> (dream) I a (beside)

Write the following Hiragana.

hanaya (florist)

yuki (snow)

tsuyoi (strong)

yaoya (srocery)

fuyu (winter)

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Write the following Hiragana.

1 iya (no,hate) 2 yume ( dr eam) 3 yomu (read)

4 yama (mountain) 5 yoku ( often) 6 fuyu ( winter)

7 tsuyoi (strong) 8 hayai (fast, early)

9 yasui(cheap) 10 yonaka (midnieht)

11 yasashii (easy)

1 2 n a t s u y a s u m i ( s u m m e vr a c a t i o n )

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ri

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b
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ro

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Read the following Hiragana.
1 b 2 v ) 3 b fL 5 b

? b (skv) < t A (medicine) X b (night)

e>fL (that) 1 0 # J.'6 (bath) 11 e>et a (wash)

12 L r s 0 ( n e x tt o ) 1 3 t I .b ( s p r i n g ) 14 J fu (this)

1b *j 6 I_ Z>V, (interesting)

Write the following Hiragana.

sara (plate)

tori (bird)

h i r u( n o o n )

rekishi (history)

hiroi (*pacious)

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Write the following Hiragana.

1 ikura (how rnuch) 2 am ar i ( not ver y)

kuruma (car) 4 kirei(beautiful)

5 shiroi (white) (; ireru (putin)

7 sochira (that way) 8 furui(old)

atarashii (new)

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Read the following Hiragana.

t) t tu

t> b v, (bad) ( l" 3 (weather) It: b (garden)

Uc 6 /- (question) t v. Urt'A, (embassy) *>rt'Vt(young)

Write the following Hiragana.

kawa (river)

hon (book)

w a t a s h i (I )

taihen (very)

minasan (everybody)

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Write the following Hiragana.

nlwa (garden) 2 hon (book) 3 kawa (river)

4 wakai(young) 5 tenki (weather)

6 w a t a s h i( I ) 7 nihon (Japan)

8 kawaii(cute)

9 sentaku (laundry)

10 okusan (wife)

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go

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ZU
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do L.
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bi tN
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bu "aD

be .N

bo cf'
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pa tf
pi ur-*
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pu a)
pe .d.

po Ir

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Readthe following Hiragana.
1 &tfr tr (glasses) Z f.5 (kev) 3 f C (soon)

4 a /-trI<> (this month) 5 a i* ,L (meal) 6 l* v. i- B (ashtray)

7 Vf i ' A, ( t i me ) 8 6 f (nap) 9 f.€ (cold, wind)

10 ,.?( (family) 1 1 z 1 ' b f i ( b o d y) 1Z (.1"3 (electricity)

13 * Ll (window) | 4 t tf' (near) 15 ,. Ll.'/',,(vase)

16 €l"Jl (all) 77 '\/.., D (convenient)18 *j if A, (tray)

19 5,fif-,>(blond) 2A i-l-f.tr:t (pencil) Zt </-l:B(tempura)

22 5Ltf (walk)

Write the followingHiragana.

t ongaku (music)

2 shizukana (quiet)

3 tomodachi (friend)

a shinbun (newspaper)

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Write the following Hiragana.

1 mizu (water) 2 tsugi (next) 3 dore (which)

4 tegami (letter) 5 denwa ( telephone)

6 gozen (A.M.) 7 genki (fine)

8 kaban (bag)

9 abunai (dangerous)

10 nigiyaka (livelY)

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R e a d t h e f o l l o w i n g H i r a g a na .

3 = ( (stamp) /t-'-> fi' (3rd) tr r r (six)

1
V--? A (diary) *--f C (straight) 6: L (more)

bd- ((the day after tomorrow)

Write the following Hiragana.

kippu (stamp)

zasshi(mazagine)

sekken (soap)

y u k k ur i ( s l o w l y )

kissaten (coffee
shop)

'Onn? (woman)

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Readthe following Hiragana.

*jt:v.5,f (brother)
hfi'*> 51" (mothcr)

vQ) zl:f: (evening) *;*ti6/" (sister)

*i ii S v\ (bis)

Write the following Hiragana.

o b a a s a n( g r a n d m o t h e r )

o Ji l sa n (grandfather)

y u u b i n( m a i l )

t o o i ( fa r )

yuube (lastnight)

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Read the following Hiragana.

i v'a (English) vga e>V. /r (famous)

5A,a i (bank) v'6iL (youngersister)

'ttrttVr (teacher) ( student)

*r < tVr

Write the following Hiragana.

eega (film)

kooen (park)

OtoOtO (youngerbrother)

yoofuku (clothes)

dooshite (whv)

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HOMEWORK

Write the follwing Hiragana.

1 t o k e e (w a tch ) 2 mukoo (beyond)

doozo (please) 4 kinoo (yesterday)

5 sooji (cleaning) 6 booshi (hat)

7 seeto (pupil) 8 doomo (thank you)

9 gakkoo (school)

10 kayoobi (Tuesday)

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kya 3 f
klrr 3 lrp

kyo 3 I

sha Ut
shu L v9
sho L T

+
cha 2 f

chu + v9
c

cho + ]-
D d\

l 2
nya Ir- f

flyu tY,\ -- t'9

nyo (,: J

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hya Ll. f
hy"u r} t&
hyo Ll. l-
d.

mya h +
fnyu h v9
myo h- I

rya v) *

rru v) lrp
ryo v) T

gya 3 {r

gru aJri
v9

gyo 3 I

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ja 1.. t

Ju l ' v9

jo l" T

ja 6' t
J--\ v9
lu 2

-l-s
Jo 2 T

bya Ll.' t
blrr tI' vp
byo u.'I

pya Ll'st
pru rf v9

pyo tl'e I

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R e a dt h e f o l l o w i n gH i r a g a n a .
1 ti*+( (guest) 2 3 oei i' ( holiday)

g (today) 4 DT/-l-r (bicYcle)

3ri

fL/-Uwi (practise) 6 Drjf (goodat)

5

t t : l , lf u t > r (g re e nte a ) 8 t, W ) t7r (gaution)

7

9 t' x ) L' (iust) 10 Cl'+ ( (hundred)

vlwirr(rtvr(fsreignstudent) 12 v )r ' i (trip)

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13 Sueii:l9i (milk) 14 /: 'L D r i CI-(birthdav)

15 C Nf ) v . / . , , ( h o s p i t a l )

Write the following Hiragana-

1 shashin (PhotograPh)

2 c h ai r o ( b r o w n )

3 ryokan (inn)

a shukudai (homework)

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Write the following Hiragana.

l jisho (dictionary) 2 densha (train)

3 kyonbn (lastyear) 4 shujin (husband)

5 ryoori (food) 6 koocha (tea)

8 byooki (sick) 9 kaisha (company)

t 0 benkyoo (study)

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Readthe following sentences.
1 : /-l:bl*"

2 b/:LiJ ir<tv'('.fo

3 3 r i tl D j ) C I ' ( " 1 * b v*)t /u"

4 *v.tt6 t':Pr!p''- v.3*f"

5,*aa iett:t L*L/:i'o

6 V ) V r ( / , 3 ( ' -l - / : r t ' b , : i i - l - t : v ' '3 * l ' / : "

T f X i I f/ - 5 - e f i ' " l

W r i t c t h e f o l l o w i n g s e n t e n c e si n H i r a g a n a '
1 lma nanji desu ka.

?. Kore o misete kudasai.

3 W a t a s h iw a a s h i t a N i h o n n i i k i m a s u -

4 Tookyoo de tomodachi to eega o mimasu.

5 Anata wa doko e ikimasu ka.

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HOW TO WRITE HIRAGANA

l. [n Japanese,thereare threewriting systems: Hiragana,Katakanaand Kanji.

Hiraganaand Katakanaare phoneticand the samesymbol always indicatesthe same
sound.

2. One hiraganarepresentsone syllable and there are five different types in

syllables.
a. Five basicvowels:[al,[i],[u],[e],[o]
b. Consonantor semivowel+ vowel: [nal,[ki],[yu],etc.
c. Syllabicconsonant:[n] / fml
d. Any consonantotherthan [n] / [m] when followed by anotheridentical
consonant:e.g. zasshi,kissaten,etc.
e. A contractedsyllable:Ikil + [ya]=[kya],lchil+ [ya]=[cha],etc.

3. The stroke orders are usually from left to right and top to bottom.

1. There are threeways to finish a stroke.

Tome or 'stop' meansthat the pen has to make a completestop and should be
lifted it off the paperat the end of the stroke.
Hane or 'jump' meansthat you leave a jump mark before the end of the stroke.

Lastly,with harai or sweeping',]ou finish the strokeby lifting the pen up

gradually.

5. There are46 basicsymbolsin Hiragana. In addition, there are Dakuon,

HandakuonandYoon (See16, 17, & 18).

6. The first five of theseare vowels,[al, [i], [u], [e], [ol.

7. The secondfive are thesevowels plus the consonantft.

8. The third are the vowelsplus the consonats.

Slti is usedfor si becausethe lattersounddoesn'texist.

9. The fourth, the vowels plus the consonant/..

Chi and tsu replaceti and tu.
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10. The fifth, the vowels plus the consonantn'

11. The sixth, the vowelsplus the consonanth"

Fu for hu

12. The seventh,the vowels Plusm.

13. The eighth,the vowelsPlus-Y.

Yi andYe don't exist.

14. The ninth, the vowels Plusr

'r' can be regardedas the soundbetween[rl and [ll in
The pronounciationof
English.

15. The vowel Plusw

wi,wtt andwe don t exist in modernJapanese'
o tftl is usedonlY as a Particle-

16. Dakuon
There are three kinds of dakuon. Three consonantsused for them are lg'zd]-

17. Handakuonis [Pa,Pi, Pu,Pe,Po].

18. Yoon
There are three kinds of Yoon.
1. K, N, H, M, R + Y + A,IJ,O
E , e .K + Y + O = K Y O *-t

2 . S ,C + H + A , U , O
Eg. C:lf+ YA - CHA f: *

3. J +A, [J, O
Eg.JA D+

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How to write words

19. Double Vowel [ol + [o]
When doubleo's occur,the second[o] syllable is written with an [u] in most
cases.lel + lel -+ [e] + [i]

20. Double Consonants

Everytime two consonantstake place in a row, the first one is always written
with a half-sized[tsul.
Nippon [:: [f rL
The double consonant[n] is not to be treatedas above. The first [n] is written
wiitrfu.

How to write sentences

Don't confusethe particles[wa,o,e]with ordinary [wa,o,e].

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