Hirakata | Japanese Widget

Boost your Hiragana and Katakana!

• Custom Home Screen widgets: decorate your Home Screen while learning to recognize Japanese kanas.
• Daily quiz with streak: sharpen your Hiragana and Katakana reading with the daily quiz, and build the habit by maintaining a streak.
• Learn by drawing: follow the stroke order for each kana to memorize the proper way to write Hiragana and Katakana.
• Word Search game: master reading and identifying Hiragana and Katakana at lightning speed, and learn new vocabulary too.

Add custom widgets to your Home Screen

• Choose from Hiragana and Katakana, or show all characters.
• Craft your widget with your favorite font style, color theme, and background color.

Discover Hiragana and Katakana with the Library

• See and compare all Hiragana and Katakana in one place.
• Watch your learning progress as the characters that you've learned with the quiz turn different colors.
• Tap each character to hear it.

Test yourself with the daily quiz

• Learn by drawing characters following the correct stroke order.
• Put your knowledge to the test with a quick but effective daily quiz.
• Keep a streak alive by taking the quiz every day.
• See which kanas you got wrong, and practice those again until they stick.

Bonus Word Search game

• Unlock the Word Search game by taking the quiz for 5 days.
• Learn new vocabulary with kana, romaji, and translation.
• Train your Japanese reading skills to identify characters faster than ever before.
• Have fun playing while you learn Japanese every day.

Try Hirakata today

• If you're new to Japanese, the library and widgets will help you learn all the characters in no time.
• If you already know hiragana and katakana, use the widgets to remember them regularly, and check the charts whenever you forget one.
• Test your learning and stay sharp with daily exercises and personalized review sessions.

Explore the different syllabaries:

• Basic Hiragana and Katakana (Gojūon)
• Hiragana and Katakana with Diacritics (Dakuten and Handakuten)
• Hiragana and Katakana Digraphs (Yōon)
• Hiragana and Katakana Digraphs with Diacritics (Yōon + Dakuten and Handakuten)

Great new features coming soon, stay tuned!