Del japonés, 五十音　lit. "50 sonidos". Se refiere al inventario de kanas Hiragana o Katakana, dispuestos en 10 filas de 5 caracteres cada una. A pesar de su nombre solo posee 46 kanas, no incluyendo: \n* kanas formados por consonantes sonoras (aquellos con dakuten) \n* los "yoon", kanas compuestos que denotan sonidos contraídos, formados por una consonate, una semivocal y una vocal, como きゃ(kya) o しゅ(shu) \n* sokuon \n* "Wi" y "We", dos símbolos ya obsoletos. El orden gojuon es equivalente al orden alfabético utilizado por las lenguas indoeuropeas.

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The gojūon (五十音, lit. "fifty sounds") is a Japanese ordering of kana, so it is loosely a Japanese "alphabetical order". The "fifty" (gojū) in its name refers to the 5×10 grid in which the characters are displayed. Each kana, which may be a hiragana or katakana character, corresponds to one sound in the Japanese language. As depicted at the right using hiragana characters, the sequence begins with あ (a), い (i), う (u), え (e), お (o), then continues with か (ka), き (ki), く (ku), け (ke), こ (ko), and so on for a total of ten rows of five. Although nominally containing 50 characters, the grid is not completely filled, and, further, there is an extra character added outside the grid at the end: with 5 gaps and 1 extra character, the current number of distinct kana in a syllabic chart in modern Japanese is therefore 46. Some of these gaps have always existed as gaps in sound: there was no yi or wu in Old Japanese, and ye disappeared in Early Middle Japanese, predating the kana; the kana for i, u and e double up for those phantom values. Also, with the spelling reforms after World War II, the kana for wi and we were replaced with i and e, the sounds they had developed into. The kana for syllabic n (hiragana ん) is not part of the grid, as it was introduced long after gojūon ordering was devised. (Previously mu (hiragana む) was used for this sound.) The gojūon contains all the basic kana, but it does not include: \n* versions of kana with a dakuten such as が (ga) or だ (da), or kana with handakuten such as ぱ (pa) or ぷ (pu), \n* smaller kana, such as the sokuon (っ) or yōon (ゃ,ゅ,ょ). The gojūon order is the prevalent system for collating Japanese in Japan. For example, dictionaries are ordered using this method.Other systems used are the iroha ordering, and, for kanji, the radical ordering.

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