Japanese

Question 1

What is hiragana?

Answer 1

Hiragana is one of the two phonetic scripts used in the Japanese writing system.

Question 2

How many basic hiragana characters are there?

Answer 2

There are 46 basic hiragana characters.

Question 3

True or False: Hiragana is used primarily for native Japanese words.

Answer 3

True.

Question 4

Fill in the blank: The hiragana character ‘あ’ represents the sound _____ .

Answer 4

a.

Question 5

What is the hiragana character for the sound ‘ki’?

Answer 5

き.

Question 6

Which hiragana character represents the sound ‘su’?

Answer 6

す.

Question 7

True or False: Hiragana can be used to write foreign words.

Answer 7

False.

Question 8

What is the hiragana character for the sound ‘ne’?

Answer 8

ね.

Question 9

What does the hiragana character ‘た’ represent?

Answer 9

‘ta’.

Question 10

Multiple Choice: Which of the following is a hiragana character? A) し B) 𠮷 C) 日

Answer 10

A) し.

Question 11

How do you write the sound ‘mo’ in hiragana?

Answer 11

も.

Question 12

What is the hiragana character for ‘ra’?

Answer 12

ら.

Question 13

Fill in the blank: The hiragana character ‘う’ represents the sound _____ .

Answer 13

u.

Question 14

True or False: Hiragana is used for grammatical functions in sentences.

Answer 14

True.

Question 15

What is the hiragana character for ‘to’?

Answer 15

と.

Question 16

What does the hiragana character ‘さ’ represent?

Answer 16

‘sa’.

Question 17

Multiple Choice: Which of the following is not a hiragana character? A) み B) ね C) かん

Answer 17

C) かん.

Question 18

How do you write ‘shi’ in hiragana?

Answer 18

し.

Question 19

What is the hiragana character for the sound ‘ye’?

Answer 19

There is no hiragana character for ‘ye’.

Question 20

What is the hiragana character for ‘ho’?

Answer 20

ほ.

Question 21

True or False: Hiragana characters can represent entire words.

Answer 21

False.

Question 22

What is the hiragana character for ‘me’?

Answer 22

め.

Question 23

Fill in the blank: The sound ‘e’ is represented by the hiragana character _____ .

Answer 23

え.

Question 24

What is the hiragana character for ‘yu’?

Answer 24

ゆ.

Question 25

How do you write 'na' in hiragana?

Answer 25

な.

Question 26

What is the hiragana character for 'se'?

Answer 26

せ.

Question 27

Multiple Choice: Which character represents the sound 'te'? A) て B) てい C) ト

Answer 27

A) て.

Question 28

Fill in the blank: The hiragana character 'よ' represents the sound _____ .

Answer 28

yo.

Question 29

What is the hiragana character for 'fu'?

Answer 29

ふ.

Question 30

True or False: Hiragana is always written in a straight line.

Answer 30

False.

Question 31

What is the hiragana character for 'a'?

Answer 31

あ.

Question 32

How do you write 'ro' in hiragana?

Answer 32

ろ.

Question 33

What is the hiragana character for 'chi'?

Answer 33

ち.

Question 34

Fill in the blank: The sound 'ka' is represented by the hiragana character _____ .

Answer 34

か.

Question 35

What is the hiragana character for 'e'?

Answer 35

え.

Question 36

Multiple Choice: Which of the following represents the sound 'no'? A) の B) ね C) のう

Answer 36

A) の.

Question 37

What does the hiragana character 'わ' represent?

Answer 37

'wa'.

Question 38

How do you write the sound 'ta' in hiragana?

Answer 38

た.

Question 39

True or False: Hiragana can be used to write onomatopoeia.

Answer 39

True.

Question 40

What is the hiragana character for 'ki'?

Answer 40

き.

Question 41

Fill in the blank: The hiragana character 'み' represents the sound _____ .

Answer 41

mi.

Question 42

What is the hiragana character for 'so'?

Answer 42

そ.

Question 43

How do you write 'ne' in hiragana?

Answer 43

ね.

Question 44

Multiple Choice: Which character represents the sound 'mo'? A) も B) ま C) み

Answer 44

A) も.

Question 45

True or False: Hiragana is purely a phonetic script.

Answer 45

True.

Question 46

What is the hiragana character for 'u'?

Answer 46

う.

Question 47

How do you write 'sa' in hiragana?

Answer 47

さ.