Hiragana Quiz
Practice hiragana with typed recall, row-level selection, Reverse mode, a 60-second Sprint, Weak Kana review and a full local progress chart.
Start Hiragana Quiz
This landing opens the real Japanese Kana engine with the relevant script and full practice set preselected. Change rows, switch direction or move into Sprint and Weak Kana without leaving the learning system.
Practice hiragana as recall, not recognition alone
Hiragana is the rounded phonetic script used throughout ordinary Japanese writing. This quiz starts with the standard Base 46 but does not stop there: the same engine also covers dakuten and handakuten forms such as が, ぞ, ぶ and ぽ, plus yōon combinations such as きゃ, しゅ and りょ. You can keep the set narrow while learning one row, then turn on more rows when the shapes are stable.
The default Recall 10 mode shows the kana first and asks you to type its romaji reading. That is intentionally stricter than picking an answer from four choices. On the first miss, the game records the miss but does not immediately hand you the answer; you get one more clean retrieval attempt. If you miss again, the correct reading is shown before the next prompt. This makes the round useful for learning without pretending a second-attempt recovery was a first-attempt success.
Choose exactly what you have learned
The row picker lets you isolate vowels, K, S, T, N, H, M, Y, R and W/N, or use the voiced and contracted-sound rows separately. That matters for beginners because practicing all kana before you have learned them creates noise rather than useful retrieval. Select only the rows you know, repeat them, then expand the pool.
Common input variants are accepted where they help rather than punish the learner. For example, both shi and si can answer し, both chi and ti can answer ち, both tsu and tu can answer つ, and both fu and hu can answer ふ. The visible reference remains a canonical Hepburn-style reading so the result screen stays consistent.
Move from accuracy to speed
Once Recall 10 feels reliable, the same selected hiragana rows can be used in Kana Sprint. Sprint waits for an explicit Start, then runs for 60 seconds. It tracks correct answers, accuracy and best streak, and saves a personal best only inside the same script and set. Wrong answers briefly show the reading and move on, so Sprint tests retrieval speed rather than trapping you on one character.
Characters you miss anywhere in normal practice enter Weak Kana. That queue is not a mysterious algorithm: it contains the exact characters you missed. Three correct review attempts retire one. The full Kana Chart shows both scripts, canonical readings and your local correct/seen counts, so you can decide what to practice next without a hidden proficiency score.
What the score does — and does not — mean
Session scores are local game results. They tell you how accurately you answered this specific set on this device. Weak Kana is also literal: a character enters that queue because you missed it here, and three correct review attempts retire it. Neither measure is an official Japanese-language level, an IQ estimate, a JLPT result or a claim that you have mastered reading Japanese.