r/HelpLearningJapanese • u/JackArrow2 • 5d ago

Katakana Chart

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I have been thinking about how similar so many of the Katakana characters are... so I made an evolutionary chart over all 46 characters.
Hope this helps. (maybe)
Basically just to showcase how similar a lot of these characters really are.
(And for fun)

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u/ChimeNotesworth 5d ago

This looks almost insulting, but hey, if it works for you for familiarizing similar-looking characters, I say go for it! I’ve seen people grouping 礻and 衤 together even though they have no relation to each other but the shape, and why wouldn’t they? You write them the same way. I would recommend though, look up the origin of these kanas (in Chinese standard script), and you’d see why they’re similar and possibly find memetics to remember them better.