Every katakana character on one page, ready to copy with a single click. Each cell shows the character with its romaji reading, organized in the standard gojūon order — basic kana first, then voiced dakuten and handakuten forms, then the small kana used in combinations.
The 46 basic katakana characters in dictionary (gojūon) order.
Voiced kana marked with ゛(dakuten) and the p-row marked with ゜(handakuten).
Small kana used in combination sounds (キャ, シュ, チョ) plus the long-vowel mark.
Click any character to copy it, or use the section buttons to copy groups.
Katakana (カタカナ) is one of the two Japanese syllabaries, used mainly for loanwords, foreign names, onomatopoeia, and emphasis — the closest thing Japanese has to italics. Each character represents a full syllable rather than a single sound, which is why the chart is organized into rows of five vowels (a, i, u, e, o) crossed with consonants. If you see a word written in katakana, it usually signals something borrowed from another language: コーヒー (kōhī, coffee), テレビ (terebi, TV), or a non-Japanese name like マイケル (Maikeru, Michael).
The angular, sharp look of katakana also makes it popular far outside Japanese text. People copy individual katakana characters for usernames, gamer tags, aesthetic social media bios, and vaporwave-style posts, because the characters render correctly almost everywhere Unicode works — Instagram, TikTok, Discord, X, and most games. Copying from a chart like this one is often faster than installing a Japanese keyboard just to grab a few characters.
The voiced dakuten forms (ガ, ザ, ダ, バ) and the p-row handakuten forms (パ, ピ, プ) are separate precomposed Unicode characters, so they copy and paste as single glyphs. The small kana (ャ, ュ, ョ, ッ) are also independent characters — they combine visually with full-size kana to form sounds like キャ (kya) and チョ (cho), and the small ッ doubles the following consonant. The long-vowel mark ー stretches the preceding vowel and is one of the most commonly copied Japanese characters of all.
Yes. All characters on this page are standard Unicode (the Katakana block, U+30A0–U+30FF), which every modern platform supports. They display correctly in bios, captions, comments, and usernames on Instagram, TikTok, Discord, X, and WhatsApp. The only places they may fail are systems restricted to ASCII, such as some email addresses or legacy forms.
Both syllabaries represent exactly the same set of sounds. Hiragana (あいうえお) is rounded and used for native Japanese words and grammar; katakana (アイウエオ) is angular and used for loanwords, foreign names, emphasis, and onomatopoeia. If you want the rounded versions, use our hiragana copy-paste page.
Names are converted by sound, not letter by letter. Our Name in Japanese tool transliterates an English name to katakana automatically — for example, Sarah becomes セーラ and David becomes デイビッド. For typing anything longer, the free online katakana keyboard lets you click or type full words.
Small ッ doubles the consonant that follows it, creating a short pause in the word. For example, カップ (kappu, cup) has a doubled p sound. It is one of the small kana, which are separate Unicode characters from their full-size versions — so make sure you copy the small ッ and not the full-size ツ.
Yes — the "Copy all" button at the top copies every character on this page, separated by spaces, and each section has its own copy button. That gives you the complete gojūon plus dakuten, handakuten, and small kana in one clipboard action, ready to paste into notes or a study document.