Katakana chart
Katakana is the angular syllabary, mostly used for loanwords, foreign names and onomatopoeia.
Click a character to hear it and see how to write it.
Basic sounds
The gojūon (五十音) table of 46 characters.
Voiced sounds
Add ゛ (dakuten) or ゜ (handakuten) to a basic sound.
Combined sounds
An i-column character followed by a small ya, yu or yo.
Extended sounds
Used to write sounds from foreign words.