Extended hiragana! - Ga Za/Ba/Ya/Da

If you thought the hiragana to be over, think again! We can make new sounds out of the hiragana we learnt last time and extend to G/Z/D/B/Y.

To write these new characters, we use special character call ten-ten or dakuten which look much like quotation marks or a small circle.

As you can see, we use characters that you already know. Can you see the pattern? To make g we apply ten-ten to the k hiragana, for z we apply it to s hiragana, for d we apply it to the t hirgana, for both b and p we use the h hiragana.

So now we can write words like undou (exercise) or shinpai (worry)! The hiragana doesnt end there though as there is a few more sounds we can make by utilzing the ya/yu/yo hiragana.

By placing a small ya/yu/yo with with the ~i hiragana we can make a ~ya ~yu ~yo sound. For example if we want to write Ryu we need to use り and then a small ゆ to write りゅ (Ryu). If you mastered the previous hiragana then this should be really simple to remember, but you should still pratice them!

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