About

Rakukana treats the fifty-sounds chart as an instrument you chant: sound first, then shape. It helps you learn hiragana and katakana with notes tailored to your language.

How kana came to be

Japanese had no script of its own; kana grew from borrowing Chinese characters to write sounds. Hiragana are cursive forms and katakana are clipped fragments — two costumes for the same sounds.

Credits

• VOICEVOX:四国めたん
• Fonts: Klee One and Noto Sans / Naskh Arabic / Devanagari (SIL Open Font License).
• Stroke-order data: strokesvg (MIT). Kana glyphs derive from Klee One and are under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (© The Klee Project Authors).

Going further

• JF Kana Memory Hint

About the tips

Tips are marked by confidence. Items marked with ※ are reported learner tendencies or hypotheses, not established facts.