Gojūon
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In the Japanese language, the gojūon is a traditional system ordering kana characters by their component phonemes, roughly analogous to alphabetical order. The "fifty" in its name refers to the 5×10 g
Japanese mobile phone keypad, showing gojūon column labels
Iroha
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The Iroha is a Japanese poem. Originally the poem was attributed to Kūkai, the founder of Shingon Buddhism, but more modern research has found the date of composition to be later in the Heian period.
Gojūon
…order is the prevalent system for collating Japanese in Japan. For example, dictionaries are ordered using this method. Other systems used are the iroha ordering, and, for kanji, the radical ordering. The gojūon arrangement is thought to have been influenced by both the Siddhaṃ script used for writing…
Firefighters' insignia organized according to the Iroha