Category:Japanese words with nonphonetic spellings


 * In modern Japanese orthography, Japanese hiragana and katakana are used very phonetically, with exceptions that are few but notable:
 * The three basic particles, , and are pronounced wa, e, and o respectively, which would be normally written , , and.
 * Elsewhere, is ha, and  is he.
 * The spellings of, , and are from earlier stages of the language.
 * is prescriptively.
 * In on'yomi and most native words, is pronounced as a long vowel ō, identical to.
 * In on'yomi,, is pronounced as a long vowel ē, identical to.
 * Kanji are of course non-phonetic and non-notable.