Languages › Japanese How to Pronounce Hiragana - Japanese Hiragana With Audio Files Share Flipboard Email Print Don Mason / Getty Images Japanese Essential Japanese Vocabulary History & Culture Japanese Grammar By Namiko Abe Japanese Language Expert B.A., Kwansei Gakuin University Namiko Abe is a Japanese language teacher and translator, as well as a Japanese calligraphy expert. She has been a freelance writer for nearly 20 years. our editorial process Namiko Abe Updated February 04, 2019 To learn Hiragana pronunciation, the following tables contains the 46 basic sounds found in Japanese. Click the link to listen the pronunciation of each hiragana character. If you want to learn more about Hiragana, have a look at our lessons, which will teach you each character and the correct stroke order. Learning the stroke order is a great way to remember how to draw each character. あ (a) い (i) う (u) え (e) お (o) か (ka) き (ki) く (ku) け (ke) こ (ko) さ (sa) し (shi) す (su) せ (se) そ (so) た (ta) ち (chi) つ (tsu) て (te) と (to) な (na) に (ni) ぬ (nu) ね (ne) の (no) は (ha) ひ (hi) ふ (fu) へ (he) ほ (ho) ま (ma) み (mi) む (mu) め (me) も (mo) や (ya) ゆ (yu) よ (yo) ら (ra) り (ri) る (ru) れ (re) ろ (ro) わ (wa) を (o) ん (n) Cite this Article Format mla apa chicago Your Citation Abe, Namiko. "How to Pronounce Hiragana - Japanese Hiragana With Audio Files." ThoughtCo, Aug. 26, 2020, thoughtco.com/how-to-pronounce-hiragana-japanese-hiragana-with-audio-files-4077351. Abe, Namiko. (2020, August 26). How to Pronounce Hiragana - Japanese Hiragana With Audio Files. Retrieved from https://www.thoughtco.com/how-to-pronounce-hiragana-japanese-hiragana-with-audio-files-4077351 Abe, Namiko. "How to Pronounce Hiragana - Japanese Hiragana With Audio Files." ThoughtCo. https://www.thoughtco.com/how-to-pronounce-hiragana-japanese-hiragana-with-audio-files-4077351 (accessed October 16, 2021). copy citation