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Katakana chart

All 46 basic katakana, their dakuten and handakuten variants and the contracted sounds, with romaji. Katakana write loan words, onomatopoeia and scientific names: it is the second script, and it is read exactly like hiragana.

The 46 basic sounds

aiueo
kakikukeko
sashisuseso
tachitsuteto
naninuneno
hahifuheho
mamimumemo
yayuyo
rarirurero
wawo
n

Dakuten and handakuten

gagigugego
zajizuzezo
dajizudedo
babibubebo
papipupepo

Contracted sounds (yōon)

kyakyukyo
shashusho
chachucho
nyanyunyo
hyahyuhyo
myamyumyo
ryaryuryo
gyagyugyo
jajujo
byabyubyo
pyapyupyo

Japanese uses three scripts at once: hiragana for grammar and native words, katakana for loan words, and kanji for meaning roots. Reading kana is therefore not enough to read a real sentence, and that is exactly the wall KanjiYome removes by putting the reading above every kanji.

See the hiragana chart

Kana done. What now?

After kana, the real obstacle is kanji. KanjiYome puts furigana and a dictionary on any Japanese text, offline, so you can read before you know everything.