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Hiragana & Katakana Chart and Quiz (Gojūon, Romaji)

Learn hiragana and katakana with a gojūon chart (basic, voiced, semi-voiced and contracted sounds): tap a kana to see its romaji, then practise with a typing quiz or a 4-choice quiz and retry the ones you missed.

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Kana chart (gojūon)

Tap a kana to show its romaji. Romaji follow the main table of “Rōmaji no tsuzurikata” (Cabinet Notice No. 4 of 2025).

Script

Basic sounds (seion)

Voiced (dakuon)

Semi-voiced (handakuon)

Contracted sounds (yōon)

Pronunciation is played with the Japanese speech synthesis voice provided by your device’s operating system (no recorded audio files are used).

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How to use

  1. Tap a kana in the chart to see its romaji and the former official spellings, or turn on “Show all romaji”.
  2. Choose the question type, script, groups and number of questions, then press “Start quiz”.
  3. Each answer is checked right away. At the end, review your score and retry only the questions you missed.

FAQ

Which romanization is used?

The main table of the Japanese Cabinet Notice “Rōmaji no tsuzurikata” (No. 4, December 2025): shi, chi, tsu, fu, ji and so on. The quiz also accepts the other spellings listed in the notice’s comparison table, such as si, ti, tu, hu, zi, wo, di and du.

Why are を, ぢ and づ written o, ji and zu?

The notice treats お/を, じ/ぢ and ず/づ as the same sound in modern standard Japanese and spells them the same way. They are left out of the romaji → kana quiz because the question would have two right answers.

Where does the pronunciation come from?

From the Japanese speech synthesis voice of your device’s operating system. No recordings are used, and the listen buttons are hidden when the device has no Japanese voice.

Notes & limitations

  • What you enter is processed only on this page and is not sent to YUCTS servers.
  • It practises one kana at a time. For writing whole words (long vowels such as ō/ou, double consonants for っ, ん before vowels), see the notes in the notice.
  • Passports, station names and other fields may use their own spellings that differ from the notice.
  • Sounds used only in loanwords (such as ファ or ヴ) and the obsolete ゐ and ゑ are outside the notice and not included.
  • Pronunciation uses the operating system’s speech synthesis, so voices and quality vary by device; it is not a perfect pronunciation model.
  • Quiz results are not saved and disappear when you close the page.

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