Katakana: Full table

learn the japanese alphabet katakana with full table!

Anyone who starts to arouse curiosity or even the goal of learning Japanese will find right from the start that we need to learn hiragana first, katakana and then kanji.

Today we are going to talk a little more about the katakana alphabet which, like hiragana, has 46 characters. It's also very simple to learn and memorize it, just use anki to speed up this process.

where to use katakana

Although the order that we start to study most of the time is hiragana the katakana was created first and nowadays it is very used for words of foreign origins mainly derived from English.

Katakana is nothing more than simplified kanji, but it is mostly used for foreign words naming for example names of people, countries, etc.

It is also used for onomatopoeias which are nothing more than words to describe noises, screams, etc. We can give an example the song of a bird or the bark of a dog.

Download full katakana table

For those who want to read in PDF format the katakana table can download here. Below you can also check everything contained in the table.

アA	エAnd	イI	The	U
KA	OK	キKI	コKO	クKU		ワWA
SA	IF	SHI	SO	SU		ヲOÉ typed WO on the keyboard
TA	TE	IT	トTO	ツTSU
ナNA	NE	ニNI	ノNO	NU		N
MA	OME	ミMI	MO	MU
HA	ヘHE	HI	ホHO		FU
ラRA	RE	リRI	ロRO	RU
YA	ヨYO	YU

with ten ten

GA	OGUE	GUI	GO	GU
ザZA	ゼZE	ジDIÉ typed ZI on the keyboard	ZOO	ZU
DA	デDE	ヂDI	DO	ヅZUÉ typed DU on the keyboard
BA	BE	BI	BU	BO

with maru

PA

ペPE

ピPI

ポPO

プPU

Compound Katakanas

KYA	KYO	KYU		NYA	NYO	NYU
TCHA	TCHO	TCHU		HYA	HYO	HYU
SHA	ショSHO	SHU		RYA	RYO	RYU
MYA	MYO	MYU

Katakanas composed with Ten ten and Maru

GYA	ギョGYO	ギュGYU		ジャJYA	JYO	ジュJYU
BYA	ビョBYO	BYU		PYA	ピョPYO	ピュPYU

For those who want to hear each character and even an example word, watch the videos below:

I hope it helped with this table and the video!

See too:
the japanese calendar
Japanese numbers from 1 to 20

Ganbatte!

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