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Hiragana	Katakana
Transliteration:	ta
Hiragana Man'yōgana:	太
Katakana Man'yōgana:	多
Unicode:
kana - gojūon n wa ra ya ma ha na ta sa ka a tsu wi ri mi hi ni chi shi ki i ゛ ru yu mu fu nu tsu su ku u ー we re me he ne te se ke e wo ro yo mo ho no to so ko o

た, in hiragana, or タ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. Both represent [ta]. た originates from the Chinese character 太, while タ originates from 多.

Stroke order

Stroke order in writing た

Stroke order in writing タ

Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

Translingual

Syllable

タ

1. The katakana syllable at タ行ア段 (row TA, section A) in a gojūon table.

Japanese

Stroke order

Etymology

Simplified in the Heian period from the man'yōgana kanji 多.

Katakana character

タ (romaji ta)

1. The [ta] phoneme, typically in words of non-Japanese origin.
2. The sixteenth character in the gojūon ordering of katakana. The previous character is ソ and the next character is チ. The equivalent hiragana character is た.

Related terms

• For a list of words starting with タ (ta) see: Special:Allpages/タ