The following table lists, in standard Japanese aiueo order, the 256 syllables that occur most frequently in Japanese. The syllables are expressed here not in hiragana but in katakana, the script in which most of them will appear anyway. Syllables that have a lengthened vowel are not listed, for to do so would make the table too bulky to be taken in all at once (and besides, linguists dispute whether a long vowel like ロウ should be counted as one syllable or two).

Put your mouse cursor over a syllable in the table to see how it is written in roman letters (Hepburn romanization).