That’s an amazing way to look at it 
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I love how your め actually looks like an eye, maybe thats the origin of this letter 
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thats actually really cool, but what does that mean?
Are those Kanji the letters that were used before 仮名 was introduced?
Or is that like Chinese Sounds or something?
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Before kana, various kanji were used phonetically. This was a pain in the ass, so they began to simplify them. And the kana were born. Sometimes both from the same kanji, sometimes from different ones.
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ぬ and め confuse me every time I try to write or read. I feel like I don’t really understand how am I supposed to write them.
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This thread made me realise that I never tried to write a full hiragana chart so I gave it a try…
I feel like the hardest thing is keeping a consistent size between each character (ら turned out huge, み and へ are really small)
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The one that is always giving me trouble is ら… interesting that people here mostly struggle with ふ, I always liked that one : ) in my imagination it is a little woodpecker, with the beak, wings and legs… and an invisible torso, I guess.
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I’ve always been interested in what people use to write Kana and Kanji, especially because I am practicing how to write the Kanji I learn. May you please tell me what you are using. It looks really nice. I would really like to know. Thank you. 
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ぬ Kinda looks like nuudles, noodles are round ended
め Kinda looks like an eye, which is conviniently the same as the word eye in japanese
My writing skills are… not there yet (maybe I should try writing them WITH a chart to really get how to write the more complicated ones), but it’s the same thing for the beigeining, except one has a round end and one is sharp
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Some people’s handwriting is really good!
I even suck at writing roman letters, let alone hiragana or katakana. It might be good to give it a try though. Especially katakana, as I’m not even 100% proficient in reading…
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This sounds logic. I will give it a try. Thanks! I really don’t like confusing hiragana.Writing comes easy if you practice. After a time it’s just an automatism. But practice is the key!
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Yup, that’s part of the reason why I did this topic, to push myself to train writing, I’ll have to do Katakana at some point too !
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Good job! Uh, I have problems with Katakana, I forget it really easy because I don’t use it that much. Right now I am reading the chart…again…i really hope i won’t forget it again.
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You should check out Tofugu’s katakana guide the mnemonics are on point.
I don’t use it that much either but I can recognize them without too much difficulty, now for the writing part… uh
Hi! That’s an Uni Pin Fine Line Brush pen. I also like to use their 0.05 pen which is great to draw crazy tiny kanji. I like the brush because you can draw both fine and thicker lines with it and it dries reasonably fast.
I would looove to get a nice refillable brush pen latter, so if you have any suggestions I would love to hear them too.
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Oh, I use Tofugu’s mnemonics. Because of those mnemonics I was able to learn hiragana. Bless those mnemonics. That’s the thing for me. I can’t recognize them if I don’t learn how to write them first. I guess the writing part is always a challenge, no matter what language. But for Japanese even more. But that’s what it makes it much better. Ah, the proud feeling I had after i was able to read hiragana. I felt so smart (i had no idea about kanji back then ofc)
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You must be right handed. For me, a lefty, anything that doesn’t dry immediately is forbidden.
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I made mine using a pen tablet. I marked hiragana, which I couldn’t write, with “?”. I usually practice, when I am bored.
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