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Pronunciation

Dakuten Hiragana

K-sounds change to G-sounds

S-sounds change to Z-sounds

T-sounds change to D-sounds

H-sounds can change either to B-sounds or P-sounds

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Pronunciation

Hiragana's five kanas ("letters"):

あ → a い → i う → u え → e お → o

Dakuten

Dakuten are Hiraganas with quotation marks or tiny circles which change the symbol and pronunciation.

The Ka, Ki, Ku, Ke, Ko kanas becomes Ga, Gi, Gu, Ge, Go The Sa, Shi, Su, Se So kanas become Za, Ji, Zu, Ze, Zo The Ta, Chi, Tsu, Te, To kanas become Da, Dzi, Dzu, De, Do The ha, hi, hu, he, ho can become ばびぶべぼ (ba bi bu be bo) or ぱぴぷぺぽ (pa pi pu pe po). The circles are only used here.

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Kanji: Used to write vocabulary words. It came from china.

Katakana: Used to write foreign. Tends to be more boxy shaped and rigid.

Hiragana: Tends to be more "smoothly" shaped and with a bunch of curves. Consistis in the same sounds as Katakana.

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"Alphabet"

Hiragana (ひらがな)

Hiragana is used to join words together like or, and, etc. It's also used in suffixes like "-san".

Hiragana is also used to give context to verbs and adjetives, when it's attached to a verb it tells us if a word is past tense, present, negative, etc.

Katakana (カタカナ)

Katakana has the same sounds as Hiragana but the symbols are different.

It's used with foreigns words that the Japanese language borrowed from other countries and made it their own, onomatopoeia words, emphasis, list of food items, etc.

Kanji (漢字)

Each Kanji symbol has different pronunciation even if it's the same symbol. Kanji is made up of nouns, adjectives and verbs