Appendix:Hiragana script

快牙

Collation

The gojūon table

The table below shows the gojūon 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	快牙ゐ		ゑ	を
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Iroha ordering system

Another ordering system is the iroha, based on a Japanese poem that, if written in hiragana, each character appears exactly once, similarly to a pangram:

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

Orthographic variations

Hiragana characters with diacritics

	う	か	き	く	け	こ	さ	し	す	せ	そ	た	ち	つ	て	と	は	ひ	ふ	へ	ほ
Dakuten	ゔ	が	ぎ	ぐ	げ	ご	ざ	じ	ず	ぜ	ぞ	だ	ぢ	づ	で	ど	ば	び	ぶ	べ	ぼ
Handakuten																	ぱ	ぴ	ぷ	ぺ	ぽ

Small forms

These are hiragana characters written in small size. They often serve functions different from those of their normal-size counterparts.

Normal size	あ	い	う	え	お	か	け	つ	や	ゆ	よ	わ
Small size	ぁ	ぃ	ぅ	ぇ	ぉ	ゕ	ゖ	っ	ゃ	ゅ	ょ	ゎ

Additional symbols

ーゝゞゟ

Comparison between scripts

See Appendix:Japanese script.