Japanese Hiragana How to read small Hiragana (Yōon) and (Sokuon)   A small Hiragana ,ya, yu or yo (ゃ, ゅ or ょ) is added at the ending of i-row (きki, しshi, ちchi, にni, ひhi, みmi , りri, ぎgi, じji, びbi, ぴpi) This changes the i vowel sound to a glide (palatalization) to a, u or o, e.g. きゃ (ki + ya) /kya/. Small y kana is called yōon.   ki き kya きゃ kyu きゅ kyo きょ shi し sha しゃ shu しゅ sho しょ chi ち cha ちゃ chu ちゅ cho ちょ ni に nya　にゃ nyu にゅ nyo にょ hi ひ hya ひゃ hyu　ひゅ hyo ひょ mi み mya […]

Japanese Katakana How to read katakana Katakana is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji. katakana is most often used for transcription of words from foreign languages   5 vowels a i u e o ア イ ウ エ オ k ka ki ku ke ko カ キ ク ケ コ s sa shi su se so サ シ ス セ ソ t ta chi tsu te to タ チ ツ テ ト n na ni nu ne no ナ ニ ヌ ネ ノ h ha hi fu he ho ハ ヒ フ ヘ ホ m ma mi mu me mo マ ミ […]