Hiragana (ひらがな)
INDEX
Basically…
Hiragana is one of Japan’s alphabets.
A little Deeper
There are actually three alphabets in Japanese. They are:
・Hiragana (ひらがな)
・Katakana (カタカナ)
・Kanji (漢字)
Hiragana is the most basic out of these three. It is like the ABC’s in English. There are about 50 characters. They look like this:
すし
Which says sushi.
What do they sound like?
Every character has one sound.
For example, look at the two hiragana below:
す is pronounced su
し is pronounced shi
Put them together
すし is pronounced sushi
Yes the word sushi
Putting it all Together
So, when you hear Hiragana, just think of it as Japan’s ABCs.