Appendix:Hiragana script

This appendix explains characters written in the Hiragana script.

Collation

The gojūon table

The table below shows the gojūon table with all hiragana characters, except alternative versions such as small characters or with diacritics, as they are most commonly organized.

Hiragana gojūon table
	Row A (あ段)	Row I (い段)	Row U (う段)	Row E (え段)	Row O (お段)
Section A (あ行)	あ	い	う	え	お
Section KA (か行)	か	き	く	け	こ
Section SA (さ行)	さ	し	す	せ	そ
Section TA (た行)	た	ち	つ	て	と
Section NA (な行)	な	に	ぬ	ね	の
Section HA (は行)	は	ひ	ふ	へ	ほ
Section MA (ま行)	ま	み	む	め	も
Section YA (や行)	や		ゆ		よ
Section RA (ら行)	ら	り	る	れ	ろ
Section WA (わ行)	わ	ゐ		ゑ	を
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Iroha ordering system

Another ordering system is the iroha, based on a Japanese poem that, if written in hiragana, each character appears exactly once, similarly to a pangram:

いろはにほへとちりぬるをわかよたれそつねならむうゐのおくやまけふこえてあさきゆめみしゑひもせす

Orthographic variations

Hiragana characters with diacritics

Additional characters with diacritics

	わ	ゑ	ゐ	を
Dakuten	わ゙	ゑ゙	ゐ゙	を゙

Additional characters with diacritics (Part 2)

	ら	れ	り	ろ	る
Handakuten	ら゚	れ゚	り゚	ろ゚	る゚

Small forms

These are hiragana characters written in small size. They often serve functions different from those of their normal-size counterparts.

Normal size	あ	い	う	え	お	か	け	つ	や	ゆ	よ	わ
Small size	ぁ	ぃ	ぅ	ぇ	ぉ	ゕ	ゖ	っ	ゃ	ゅ	ょ	ゎ

Additional symbols

ーゝゞゟ

Origins of the characters

See Appendix:Japanese script.