What is Hiragana used for ?

Answer 1

Hiragana is a syllabary used in Japanese to denote specific pronunciation of Japanese words.

In other words, it's a sort of Japanese alphabet, except each "letter" is a syllable. The form of each syllable was derived from Chinese characters.

There is another syllabary in Japanese called katakana that denotes the same syllables, but katakana is primarily used for "loan words" (words that did not originate in the Japanese language).

Answer 2

Hiragana is curvilinear and is used to write certain Japanese words, such as particles (wa, ga, ni), conjunctions, certain nouns and so on. Hiragana suffixes are also used with kanji stems to form verbs and adjectives.

They are an essential part of the Japanese written language and, seeing as there's only 46 basic hiragana, most written with only two or three strokes, it's a good idea to get them under your belt before embarking on the kanji.

Hiragana is different from Katakana.

Katakana characters are more angular than their hiragana counterparts and are used for words of foreign origin, emphasis and a whole bunch of swearwords
Example: Mark Joseph - Maaku Joshifuku

Answer 3

Hiragana is used for all writing excpet in the following cases

- Katakana, used for foreign words, onomatopeia (sound words,
Bang,Pow etc.) and generally when things need to be emphasised, in ads

- Kanji, pictorial symbols, used very frequently in place of hiragana.

Hiragana is basically the way of writing, the alphabet really

Answer 4

kanji are used to write parts of the language such as nouns, adjective stems and verb stems, while hiragana are used to write inflected verb and adjective endings (okurigana), particles, native Japanese words, and words where the kanji is too difficult to read or remember. Katakana is used for representing onomatopoeia and non-Japanese loanwords.

Answer 5

To write words in Japanese for which there are no Kanji symbols.