Hiragana -Syllabary for Japanese writing

Around the 9th century, the Japanese developed their own syllable-based writing system: hiragana and katakana (together: kana). Of the two kana systems, hiragana is more italic, while katakana characters are more angular.

Hiragana and katakana are made up of 46 signs that were originally kanji but have been simplified over the centuries.

Although the entire Japanese language can theoretically be written in hiragana, it is generally used only for grammatical endings of verbs, nouns, and adjectives, as well as particles and other original Japanese words.

Hiragana is the first syllabary Japanese children learn. These characters, unlike kanji, have no conceptual value, only phonetic, that is, it is always the same sound.