Meet the W family and the N consonant in hiragana and learn how to correctly write your strokes!
The W family and the N consonant in hiragana
The hiragana WA ( わ ) is very easy to confuse with the hiragana NE ( ね ) and with RE ( れ ). Notice that they have the same writing, but NE has a small loop at the bottom. To differentiate one symbol from another, I had to think of a different path when associating the WA character in the way used in NE.
Notice that the first dash would be (as always) a ninja and the second dash is composed of two symbols: a 7 and a nose. So we can put together a little story…
O ninja revoltado com meu amigo WAlter, bateu nele sete vezes com o numeral “7” bem no nariz até e o nariz de WAlter sangrar. Para lembrar do som deste símbolo, ao falar WA de WAlter eu falo UAlter. Distorcendo as sílabas para ficar semelhante à fala japonesa.
Below is the order of the strokes:
WO = を
If you look carefully, the second-to-last symbol of hiragana appears to be made up of three letters from our alphabet: T, L (crooked down), and C.
To remember the lyrics that make up this hiragana I associated it with the story of a giant armadillo licking its own shell. Along with that, just remember that the turtle's name is Uóli (Wally).
N = ん
Este é o hiragana mais fácil de aprender, ele é idêntico ao nosso “h” em itálico ( deitado ) e com traços mais ondulados. Daí é só imaginar uma pessoa com problemas de dicção. Assim como algumas pessoas trocam o R pelo L, essa pessoa troca o H pelo N.
The cool thing about the letter ん is that it has the same use as N in Portuguese, being able to join with vowels or other syllables to form nasal sounds like: na, ana, no, yesterday, ni, winter…
Japanese calligraphy exercise
Select the Japanese alphabet symbols and click the Generate button in the Worksheet for Kana and Kanji Practice . Then a new window will open with the file for printing. Then just print it out, cover the gray hiragana symbols and then try to write it yourself. Just print and practice!
| わ | を | ん |