五十音図

Noun

 * 1)  the 5x10 table used for arranging all the 47 kana used for the, whose  are arranged by the vowels  and  are arranged by the consonants (Ø, , , , , , , , , ; voiced obstruents and  are customarily not included because they were rarely distinguished in writing); columns are ranked by , with the vowel  being the highest grade and the vowel  being the lowest; the missing cells of the  and  are filled with /, / and / taken from the , in order to represent classical grammatical inflection with modern text (or alternatively, artificially filled with rare kana such as /, / and /)