Japanese/Kana/Lessons/Hiragana/Lesson 10

In this lesson you are going to learn how to read and write "わ", "を" and "ん". わ wa The second part drawn looks like a washing motion or the "wax on, wax off" motion from The Karate Kid. The two perpendicular lines are the end of a pier being hit by a wave of water. わし 鷲(washi) eagle わに 鰐(wani) alligator わるい 悪い(warui) bad を Similar to o. When spoken, the mouth is shaped as if saying 'w', and a trace of the 'w' appears in the sound so in English it is often written 'wo'. The 'w' is particularly noticeable when the preceding word ends in 'n', for example in パンを食べる meaning to eat bread. A man stepping into a bending river. "Whoa, it's cold." を (wo or o) a particle introducing an object すさのを - Susano(w)o, an ancient god of the storms and seas Note: The "を" syllable is used only for the object marker particle. No other word is written with "を". ん Can sound like an n, ng, or m sound, depending on what consonant follows it (for example, if a "p" follows, this sound will be an "m"). Because there is little differentiation between these sounds in Japanese, using n for all examples will still be clearly understood. N - It looks like a badly drawn n from the Roman alphabet. The stem is too long and the tail extends too far. おんな 女(onna) woman さんご 珊瑚(sango) coral さんそ 酸素(sanso) oxygen Note: No word starts with "ん".