After the 1900 script reform, which deemed hundreds of characters hentaigana, the hiragana syllabary consists of 48 base characters, of which two (ゐ and ゑ) are only used in some proper names:

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The following table shows the complete hiragana together with the Hepburn romanization and IPAtranscription in the gojūon order. Hiragana with dakuten or handakuten follow the gojūon kana without them, with the yōon kana following. Those in bold

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Hentaigana
Polysyllabic kana
yi, ye and wu
yi
Though ye did appear in

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With a few exceptions, such as for the three particles は (pronounced [ɰa] instead of [ha]), へ (pronounced [e] instead of [he]) and [o] (written を instead of お), Japanese when written in kana is phonemically orthographic, i.e. there is a one-to-one correspondence between

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The following table shows the method for writing each hiragana character. The table is arranged in a traditional manner, beginning top right and

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• Japanese writing system
• Bopomofo (Zhùyīn fúhào, "phonetic symbols"), the current official phonetic spelling system for Taiwanese Mandarin, also simplified from Chinese characters.
• Iteration mark explains the iteration marks used with hiragana.

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Hiragana developed from man'yōgana, Chinesecharacters used for their pronunciations, a practice that started in the 5th century. The oldest

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