Katakana Writing
Practice Workbook
A planned handwriting workbook for the 46 basic katakana — with angular stroke order, long vowels, sokuon, extended sounds, and everyday loanwords. Built for calm daily practice alongside hiragana.
What the Katakana Workbook will include
Katakana is the second phonetic script. The workbook covers the angular shapes, the special sound rules, and the loanwords where katakana actually lives.
Every character of the gojūon grid, plus dakuten, handakuten, and yōon.
Diagrams for the straighter, more angular katakana strokes.
Guided writing rows that fade from traced to freehand.
Practice with ー lengthening and the small ッ pause.
Foreign-sound blends like フィ, ディ, and チェ.
Common katakana words — names, food, tech, and modern terms.
Why katakana matters
Katakana is everywhere in modern Japanese — loanwords, names, sounds, and emphasis. Writing it cleanly keeps it readable.
Many everyday and tech words are written in katakana, so clear handwriting pays off fast.
Foreign names, onomatopoeia, and emphasis all rely on katakana.
Katakana strokes are straighter than hiragana, so stroke order keeps them legible.
While the workbook is being prepared
You can already start writing katakana with the free chart and stroke-order animations.
Katakana Chart
The full grid with long vowels, sokuon, extended sounds, and click-to-animate stroke order.
Free Practice Pages
Printable katakana charts and blank writing grids you can use right now.
Start with N5
The N5 hub explains how kana, kanji, and vocabulary fit into one writing path.