Japanese hiragana is shown in the figure below:
Hiragana is a phonetic character used in Japanese. Except for one or two hiragana, all of them evolved from the cursive script of Chinese characters. Later, it was formed in the 9th century AD. In the early days, it was reserved for Japanese women. Later, with the popularity of "The Tale of Genji" written by Murasaki Shikibu, Japanese men also began to accept and use it.
The Japanese writing and pronunciation of Hiragana: Hiragana.
In modern times, people divide the uses of hiragana into four types: 1. To mark the pronunciation of Chinese characters; 2. As an auxiliary word; 3. Used mixed with Chinese characters; 4. The composition of greetings.
Extended information:
Phonetic writing is a type of writing that uses a small number of letters to record the sounds in a language, thereby recording the language. Phonograms can be divided into the following categories according to the phonetic units represented by the graphemes.
Syllabic writing: a letter representing a syllable, such as kana writing; a letter representing a part of a syllable, a semi-syllabic writing; a letter representing a phonetic unit between a syllable and a phoneme, such as a phonetic alphabet ; Vowel script and consonant phoneme script: one grapheme represents a phoneme, but vowels and consonants are treated differently; phoneme script: one grapheme represents one phoneme.
The writing system of most countries in the world is phonetic writing.
Can be divided into:
①Syllabic text: One letter represents one syllable.
For example: Japanese kana
②Phonemic text: Use one letter to represent a phoneme.
For example: the Latin alphabet used in English and French, the Cyrillic alphabet used in Russian, and the Arabic alphabet used in Arabic and Uyghur.
Phonetic writing refers to a writing system that expresses the content of a language in the form and symbols of speech, which will achieve a certain consistency with its spoken language. This set of recorded symbols is called phonetic writing. For example: kana, proverbs, Latin letters, etc. all belong to this category.
Reference materials: Baidu Encyclopedia: Hiragana; Baidu Encyclopedia: Phonetic characters