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Japanese hiragana is one of the two phonetic syllabaries used in everyday writing. The system begins with five vowels that appear in the order あ (a, as in "father"), い (i, as in...
Katakana is the second Japanese syllabary, used primarily for foreign loanwords, onomatopoeia, technical and scientific terms, and occasionally for visual emphasis. Its vowel set m...
Japanese has a rich set of greetings that vary by time of day, formality, and the closeness of the relationship. The most common general greeting is こんにちは (konnichiwa), meanin...
Japanese numbers follow two main systems. The basic numbers from one to ten are 一 (いち / ichi), 二 (に / ni), 三 (さん / san), 四 (し or よん / shi or yon), 五 (ご / go), 六 (ろ...
Particles are small words attached to nouns and phrases that define their grammatical role in a sentence. Several core particles deserve attention first. The particle は (written "...
The days of the week in Japanese each pair an element or celestial body with the suffix 曜日 (youbi, "day of the week"). 月曜日 (げつようび / getsuyoubi, Monday) is associated with...