This appendix explains characters written in theHiragana script.
The table below shows thegojūon table with all hiragana characters, except alternative versions such as small characters or with diacritics, as they are most commonly organized.
| Hiragana gojūon table | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Row A (あ段) | Row I (い段) | Row U (う段) | Row E (え段) | Row O (お段) | |
| Section A (あ行) | あ | い | う | え | お |
| Section KA (か行) | か | き | く | け | こ |
| Section SA (さ行) | さ | し | す | せ | そ |
| Section TA (た行) | た | ち | つ | て | と |
| Section NA (な行) | な | に | ぬ | ね | の |
| Section HA (は行) | は | ひ | ふ | へ | ほ |
| Section MA (ま行) | ま | み | む | め | も |
| Section YA (や行) | や | ゆ | よ | ||
| Section RA (ら行) | ら | り | る | れ | ろ |
| Section WA (わ行) | わ | ゐ | ゑ | を | |
| ん | |||||
Another ordering system is theiroha, based on a Japanese poem that, if written in hiragana, each character appears exactly once, similarly to apangram:
いろはにほへとちりぬるをわかよたれそつねならむうゐのおくやまけふこえてあさきゆめみしゑひもせす
These are hiragana characters written in small size. They often serve functions different from those of their normal-size counterparts.