Kana

Kanas are Japanese characters used to represent a sound. Kanas are used jointly with Kanjis to write the japanese language.

There are 2 types of Kanas, hiraganas and katakanas, that are the first things that should be learned before starting with the most complex kanjis.

Hiragana list

Hiragana is mostly used to indicate prefixes and grammatical word endings
Test your knowledge of the hiragana

Katakana list

Katakana is most commonly used to write words of foreign origin that do not have kanji representations
Test your knowledge of the katakana