HIRAGANA LESSON THREE

In this lesson you will learn the Hiragana form of the sounds SA, SHI, SU, SE, SO, ZA, JI, ZU, ZE, ZO. To see the stroke order, all you need to do is hover your mouse over the graphic of the character shown on the page. To hear how to pronounce the characters, click your mouse on any picture of the character group.

With the characters shown, for example where you see SA/ZA below, the first of the two characters (the one on the left) is the one that is SA, the other one being ZA


SA/ZA A person who is sitting on the "saddle" of a horse
SHI/JI Picture a girl's hair. This is the way she wears her hair
SU/ZU A "skid" mark
SE/ZE A girl and boy "separated" on the seesaw
SO/ZO A zigzag "sewing" stitch
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