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ｙａ｜　　｜ｙｕ｜　　｜ｙｏ


ｗａ｜　　　　　　　　｜ｗｏ


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NOTE: No, character for "yi", "ye", "wi", "we", and "wu". They simply do not exist.

The "y" characters can be combined with other characters for more sounds. Here is the complete list of these combinations:



It looks a lot. But they're just combinations with the "y" characters. Notice that the "y" characters are written smaller.

The character つ (tsu) has a special role. It marks hard consonants.

For example:
いっき
ikki
(riot)

いき
iki
(breath)

Just by a difference in sound - hard vs normal consonant - the word meanings are completely different. In Romaji, hard consonants are written as double-consonants: "ikki" vs "iki". The character つ is also written smaller when used to mark hard consonants.

Aside from Hiragana, there is also Katakana. They have the exact same pattern as Hiragana: a, i, u, e, o, ka, ki, ku, ke, ko, and so on.

For now, here is the "a" row.

ａ　｜ｉ　｜ｕ　｜ｅ　｜ｏ