The Ultimate Way to Remember the Japanese Alphabet’s Order
OK, quick fact about the Japanese language – words can be written left to right like the English language when you write it out like ねこ. However, you read Japanese from up to down, right to left when the Japanese characters are displayed in a vertical manner.
The Japanese alphabet is thus displayed in a chart as shown above, which is read up to down, right to left. The order of the letter columns is very strange, but luckily my Japanese sensei for 10/11th grade taught my class a memory trick that I will never, ever forget.
A – A
K – KID
S – SAID
T – TO
N – NINE
H – HENS
M – MY
Y – YELLOW
R – RIBBON
W – WAS
N – NEW
A KID SAID TO NINE HENS MY YELLOW RIBBON WAS NEW.
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October 17, 2011 at 11:44 am
in the chart not all the empty boxes are next to each other. why.
brian
June 14, 2012 at 5:48 am
The empty boxes represent sounds not found in the regular Japanese Hiragana alphabet.
Nhan-Fiction
June 14, 2012 at 10:45 am
Very cool!
wordsfromanneli
June 15, 2012 at 8:20 am
Cool. Never heard of that but, yes, that makes life so much easier. Thanks!
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June 20, 2012 at 5:12 am
Hmnn…”Arigato” seems a lot easier; I think I’ll stick to English!
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June 21, 2012 at 8:19 pm
I wish I would have known this in college!
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July 18, 2012 at 6:20 am
Yes i like your Japanese writing.
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August 18, 2012 at 2:29 pm
This is awesome!
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August 23, 2012 at 7:38 pm
Awesome. I’m trying my best to learn japanese, this should help a lot.
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August 28, 2012 at 10:58 am
Reblogged this on mmaaeeggss and commented:
this will come in handy, indeed.
mmaaeeggss
August 30, 2012 at 1:33 am
I love learning japanese! Its a little late for me to be finding this now, but it definitely would’ve been great for studying when I was younger!
leahandsam
August 30, 2012 at 4:19 am
I have to share this with my husband, who’s been teaching himself Japanese in fits and starts. He does lovely calligraphy though
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September 21, 2012 at 5:02 pm
Nhan-Fiction
September 21, 2012 at 9:23 pm
Very clever, indeed.
Ron
September 26, 2012 at 7:12 am
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September 30, 2012 at 3:52 am
Reblogged on Tomus Arcanum: http://tomusarcanum.wordpress.com/2012/09/30/i-though-japanese-was-more-complicated/ Thanks, an interesting fact
AV
argentumvulgaris
September 30, 2012 at 3:53 am
Ooooh, what happened there? Lots of things. I’ve never had that happen before…
AV
argentumvulgaris
September 30, 2012 at 3:55 am
Thanks for checking out my blog, and commenting at: wwww.michaelanson.wordpress.com. I certainly appreciate the feedback. I liked your memory trick to remember the Japanese alphabet. I had to think for a second, but I believe it’s called a mnemonic device. Now that I’m in grad school for creative writing, I can certainly use all the help I can get to remember things.
michaelanson
September 30, 2012 at 1:42 pm
Mnemonic device FTW.
Nhan-Fiction
October 2, 2012 at 11:49 am
Japanese is such a beautiful language. I’ve always wanted to learn. Thanks for the mnemonic device AND thanks for LIKING my nerdyromantic.com blog post.
nerdromnico
October 2, 2012 at 7:22 am
The way I learned it was the way shown in RTH/RTK, where it’s like a song that goes a-ka-sa-ta na-ha-ma-ya, ra-wa-n, ra-wa-n
guptashvm
October 5, 2012 at 11:12 am
Ooh, neat! :O
Nhan-Fiction
October 5, 2012 at 2:24 pm
I’m going to show this to my roomie. She lived in Japan for 2 years and absolutely loves Japanese culture and language. Thanks for posting!
evalentina
October 18, 2012 at 2:37 pm
You’re welcome.
Nhan-Fiction
October 18, 2012 at 2:49 pm
Oh thats perfect
thanks 
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