Hiragana

The Japanese language has three different alphabets: hiragana, katakana and kanji.

Can you write that in hiragana please?

Technically hiragana is a syllabary, not an alphabet.

Hiragana represent sounds, but kanji represent ideas and concepts.

My katakana has never been good and I'm losing my ability to read hiragana.

Can you write the Japanese hiragana characters for a, i, u, e and o?

Can you write hiragana?

I must admit that reading Japanese with its cursive Hiragana phonograms, knife-stroke Katakana phonograms, and complicated Kanji logograms is very amusing. Printed Roman-lettered text of Western languages seems harder for my eyes and has less visual fluidity.

Many Japanese think that the heart of their written language is the two sets of Kana phonograms—Hiragana and Katakana—not Kanji logograms, which they relegate to older people.

In Japanese, Hiragana and Katakana are sets of phonograms, specifically syllabograms. Kanji are logograms, specifically sinograms.