Example sentences for: hiragana

How can you use “hiragana” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • ' The Kenkyusha dictionary has even three signs for it, -chi and -ni in Hiragana, following the Chinese character which in my naive innocence I would pronounce tadachi by itself.

  • • Pure Japanese name written in kanji and hiragana: Kaguya-hime (literally, Princess Sparkle, from a classic Japanese nursery tale.)

  • I cannot however be compared to Japanese schoolboys: I have never been to Japan, and I am self-taught; I can read and write Japanese (slowly) for I did learn both the Katakana and Hiragana syllabaries (47 signs each) as well as a few thousand Chinese characters.

  • It consists of borrowed Chinese ideograms (characters known as kanji , the hiragana syllabary used for Japanese words not covered by kanji , the katakana syllabary used for foreign words, and the Roman alphabet known as romanji usually used for abbreviations like UN and acronyms like GATT .


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