Have you ever wondered how the Chinese formed their writing script? Just like the Egyptian heiroglyphs, Hanzis (the Chinese logograms) were formed by observing the nature and its surroundings. Later the Japanese borrowed these logograms from China for writing their own language. The Japanese language also uses the kana scripts for writing those words and […]
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Japanese Alphabets- Katakana Charts
Katakana is the Japanese script which is used to write loanwords. These words are not of Japanese origin or in other words, a Japanese term does not exist for them. Katakana consists of 5 vowels (ア、イ、ウ、エ、オ); 40 consonants and（ヲ) a katakana of the particle を(in hiragana), but it is almost never used. The consonants are […]
Japanese Alphabets- Hiragana Charts
Hiragana is a Japanese script, which is used to write words that cannot be written in kanji. These can also appear as okurigana, words which have a kanji in the beginning but ends in hiragana (食べるtaberu to eat). In hiragana script, there are 5 vowels (あ、い、う、え、お), 40 consonants and 1 particle (を). Hiragana consonants are […]