Katakana - Table of Katakana

Table of Katakana

For modern digraph additions that are used mainly to transcribe other languages, see Transcription into Japanese.

This is a table of katakana together with their Hepburn romanization and rough IPA transcription for their use in Japanese. Katakana with dakuten or handakuten follow the gojūon kana without them.

Some characters (shi シ and tsu ツ, so ソ and n ン) look very similar in print except for the slant and stroke shape. These differences in slant and shape are more prominent when written with an ink brush.

Grey background indicates obsolete characters.

Katakana syllabograms
Monographs (gojūon) Digraphs (yōon)
a i u e o ya yu yo
∅ ア
a 		イ
i 		ウ
u 		エ
e 		オ
o
K カ
ka 		キ
ki 		ク
ku 		ケ
ke 		コ
ko 		キャ
kya 		キュ
kyu 		キョ
kyo
S サ
sa 		シ
shi 		ス
su 		セ
se 		ソ
so 		シャ
sha 		シュ
shu 		ショ
sho
T タ
ta 		チ
chi 		ツ
tsu 		テ
te 		ト
to 		チャ
cha 		チュ
chu 		チョ
cho
N ナ
na 		ニ
ni 		ヌ
nu 		ネ
ne 		ノ
no 		ニャ
nya 		ニュ
nyu 		ニョ
nyo
H ハ
ha 		ヒ
hi 		フ
fu 		ヘ
he 		ホ
ho 		ヒャ
hya 		ヒュ
hyu 		ヒョ
hyo
M マ
ma 		ミ
mi 		ム
mu 		メ
me 		モ
mo 		ミャ
mya 		ミュ
myu 		ミョ
myo
Y ヤ
ya
(yi)1		 ユ
yu
(ye)1		 ヨ
yo
R ラ
ra 		リ
ri 		ル
ru 		レ
re 		ロ
ro 		リャ
rya 		リュ
ryu 		リョ
ryo
W ワ
wa 		ヰ
i/wi 2		 Katakana obsolete wu.svgKatakana

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