A Guide to Japanese Grammar: A Japanese Approach to Learning Japanese Grammar

by Tae Kim

音読み

（おんよみ）

訓読み（く...

訓読み is the Japanese...

by itself is usually read...

same character in a compound word such as 「能力」 is ...

okurigana)

Okurigana

For example 「聞く」（きく） means to listen and so does 「聴く」（きく）. The only difference is that 「聴く」 means to pay more attention to what you're listening to.

「見る」 as 「観る」 when it applies to watching a show such as a movie.

「書く」（かく） which means "to write" while 描く （かく） means "to draw".

Particles are one or more Hiragana characters that attach to the end of a word to define the grammatical function of that word in the sentence.