Table Of Japanese Syllables - HIRAGANA and KATAGANA

Japanese has an open-syllable sound pattern. There are two sets of Japanese syllables - Hiragana() and Katagana(). There are five vowels, 'a', 'i', 'u', 'e', 'o'. The syllable may be solely of the vowel and/or composed of the vowel. The basic consonants are: 'k', 's', 't', 'n', 'h', 'm', 'y', 'r', 'w', and the syllabic nasal 'N'. Many of these consonants can be palatalized in front of the vowels 'a', 'u', and 'o', for example, 'kya', 'kyu', 'kyo'. When the two consonants, 's' and 't', occur with the vowel 'i', these consonants are automatically palatalized as 'shi' and 'chi'. The consonant 't' is pronounced as 'ts' in front of the vowel 'u'.

You have to memorize below 46 basic syllables and explore the tiny differences of Japanese pronunciation.