Artistic Forces/Hiragana

Hiragana (kanji: 平仮名, hiragana: ひらがな) is a Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system that includes katakana as well as kanji.

It is a phonetic lettering system. The word hiragana literally means "flowing" or "simple" kana ("simple" originally as contrasted with kanji).

Hiragana and katakana are both kana systems. With few exceptions, each mora in the Japanese language is represented by one character (or one digraph) in each system.

Hiragana is used to write okurigana (kana suffixes following a kanji root, for example to inflect verbs and adjectives), various grammatical and function words including particles, as well as miscellaneous other native words for which there are no kanji or whose kanji form is obscure or too formal for the writing purpose. Words that do have common kanji renditions may also sometimes be written instead in hiragana, according to an individual author's preference, for example to impart an informal feel. Hiragana is also used to write furigana, a reading aid that shows the pronunciation of kanji characters.

There are two main systems of ordering hiragana: the old-fashioned iroha ordering and the more prevalent goujon ordering.

Instead of using kanji, hiragana, along with katakana, is used by the RSSDF, Josei Guntai, Yami Musume, Kemonomimi, Zaibatsu Teikoku, and Kyoudai Gundan as one of their official and factional scripts used for dialogues, titles, and other conversions of kanji since they are both forms of kana.