When is Hiragana used?
Hiragana is a script into which "Kanji that has been transmitted from ancient China" has transformed.
Hiragana is used along with kanji to write all native Japanese words
Hiragana is used for verb and adjective endings (okurigana), particles, words that have no kanji, words which are commonly written only in kana, words for which the writer does not know the kanji, and as furigana (hints provided by the writer to the reading of an unfamiliar kanji).
>>Hiragana are used when you can't use kanji, for sound symbolism, particles, help verb, and conjunctions.
Therefore, often you can see them together with a kanji to form a word.
>>Hiragana is used for changing meanings of kanji by adding a hiragana character after the kanji.
Hiragana is also used wherever kanji characters wouldn't be used.
>>Hiragana can be used to express and write all Japanese words without the use of kanji since hiragana is like an alphabet.
>>If you can't remember the right kanji for a word, you can just spell it out in hiragana.
>>Showing pronunciation
Hiragana characters are often written next to unusual kanji characters to show their pronunciation in the same way that you have added roman characters to the sentence above.
In this case the hiragana characters are referred to as "Furigana or Yomigana".
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