The Japanese language has three different alphabets: hiragana, katakana and kanji.
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Hiragana
//ˌhɪ.ɹəˈɡæ.nə//
Synonyms for "hiragana" (15 found)
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Closest matches (3)
Strong matches (5)
Related words (7)
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Related terms
3 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
8 entriesTranslations
36 translations across 30 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- هيراقانا noun (Japanese syllabary)
- هِيرَاغَانَا noun (Japanese syllabary)
Armenian
1 entries- հիրագանա noun (Japanese syllabary)
Belarusian
2 entries- хіра́гана noun (Japanese syllabary)
- хірага́на noun (Japanese syllabary)
Bulgarian
1 entries- хирагана noun (Japanese syllabary)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 平假名 noun (Japanese syllabary)
Czech
1 entries- hiragana noun (Japanese syllabary)
Finnish
1 entries- hiragana noun (Japanese syllabary)
French
1 entries- hiragana noun (Japanese syllabary)
Georgian
1 entries- ჰირაგანა noun (Japanese syllabary)
German
1 entries- Hiragana noun (Japanese syllabary)
Greek
1 entries- χιραγκάνα noun (Japanese syllabary)
Hebrew
1 entries- היראגאנה noun (Japanese syllabary)
Hindi
1 entries- हीरागाना noun (Japanese syllabary)
Indonesian
1 entries- hiragana noun (Japanese syllabary)
Japanese
1 entries- 平仮名 noun (Japanese syllabary)
Korean
1 entries- 히라가나 noun (Japanese syllabary)
Macedonian
1 entries- хирагана noun (Japanese syllabary)
Malay
1 entries- hiragana noun (Japanese syllabary)
Marathi
1 entries- हिरागाना noun (Japanese syllabary)
Mongolian
1 entries- хирагана noun (Japanese syllabary)
Persian
1 entries- هیراگانا noun (Japanese syllabary)
Polish
1 entries- hiragana noun (Japanese syllabary)
Portuguese
1 entries- hiragana noun (Japanese syllabary)
Russian
2 entries- хира́гана noun (Japanese syllabary)
- хирага́на noun (Japanese syllabary)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- hiragana noun (Japanese syllabary)
- хирагана noun (Japanese syllabary)
Spanish
1 entries- hiragana noun (Japanese syllabary)
Swedish
1 entries- hiragana noun (Japanese syllabary)
Thai
1 entries- ฮิระงะนะ noun (Japanese syllabary)
Ukrainian
2 entries- хіра́ґана noun (Japanese syllabary)
- хіраґа́на noun (Japanese syllabary)
Vietnamese
2 entries- chữ mềm noun (Japanese syllabary)
- hiragana noun (Japanese syllabary)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
Can you write that in hiragana please?
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Technically hiragana is a syllabary, not an alphabet.
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Hiragana represent sounds, but kanji represent ideas and concepts.
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