Hiragana chart
All 46 basic hiragana, dakuten, handakuten and combinations, with rōmaji. Made for your wall.
Free charts · with audio
Hiragana & Katakana Charts
Every Japanese kana with its sound. Tap one to hear it and see it big — then go on a kana hunt and see how fast you can find them.
Practice: Kana Speedrun · Oni wa Soto! · Hiragana & Katakana Test
Hiragana chart ひらがな
Hiragana is the curvy script for Japanese words and grammar: は, を, です… There are 46 basic kana — tap any of them to hear it, or tap a row letter to hear the whole row. One trap: を is typed wo but said o.
Dakuten が & handakuten ぱ
Two little dashes (dakuten) make the sound “voiced”: か ka → が ga. A small circle (handakuten) turns h into p: は ha → ぱ pa.
aiueo
g
z
d
b
p
Two more tricks: a small っ doubles the next sound — きって kitte (stamp) — and long vowels get an extra vowel: おかあさん okāsan (mom).
Combinations きゃ
A kana from the i column plus a small ゃ ゅ ょ melts into one beat: き ki + ゃ ya → きゃ kya.
yayuyo
k
sh
ch
n
h
m
r
g
j
b
p
Katakana chart カタカナ
Katakana is the sharp script for words from other languages: コーヒー (coffee), テレビ (TV), your name. There are 46 basic kana — tap any of them to hear it, or tap a row letter to hear the whole row.
The 46 basic katakana
aiueo
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k
s
t
n
h
m
y
r
w
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Dakuten ガ & handakuten パ
Two little dashes (dakuten) make the sound “voiced”: カ ka → ガ ga. A small circle (handakuten) turns h into p: ハ ha → パ pa.
aiueo
g
z
d
b
p
Two more tricks: in katakana a long vowel is a dash — ケーキ kēki (cake) — and a small ッ doubles the next sound: ベッド beddo (bed).
Combinations キャ
A kana from the i column plus a small ャ ュ ョ melts into one beat: キ ki + ャ ya → キャ kya.
yayuyo
k
sh
ch
n
h
m
r
g
j
b
p
Printable sheets
Free hiragana and katakana PDFs: a one-page chart and practice worksheets with numbered stroke order. Print at 100% (“Actual size”).
Katakana chart
The same chart for katakana, with tips on long vowels and the look-alikes.
Hiragana practice sheets
Stroke order for every hiragana, boxes to trace and to write, one sheet per row and a test-yourself page.
Katakana practice sheets
Stroke order for every katakana, with tracing boxes, writing boxes and a self-test.
Free to print and share, not to sell · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Stroke order adapted from KanjiVG by Ulrich Apel (CC BY-SA 3.0)
How to learn kana fast
One row at a time
あ か さ た な first, then は ま や ら わ ん. Five kana a day is plenty.
Hooks, not repetition
Each kana gets a little picture story in Levels 2, 3, 5 and 6. Stories stick; copying 50 times doesn’t.
Read, don’t write (yet)
Reading speed is what unlocks Japanese. Go on a kana hunt here, then race the clock in Kana Speedrun and beat Tadashi’s 2:47.