Write the character in the highlighted square, following the printed model. Each square is checked as you write; a slip wipes the square so you can try it again.
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Every square is filled. Move on to the next row, write this one again, or test yourself without the model.
Hiragana Workbook — Interactive Kana Practice Sheets
The Hiragana Workbook is a ruled practice sheet you write on in the browser. Pick a row, and every character is printed once as a model, then repeated across a full line of empty squares for you to fill in by hand. Stroke order and stroke shape are checked in each square as you write, and every square is graded, so the repetition that fills a paper workbook actually corrects you as you go.
How the practice sheet works
Choose a kana row and how many lines to write of each character, and the sheet is ruled for you. The first squares of every row carry a faint tracing ghost; after that the squares are blank, so you write from the printed model alone. Only the highlighted square accepts your pen, which keeps the drill in order, and a slip wipes that square so you can write it again. Finished squares are marked with a grade from A+ down, and a stroke-order animation plays inside the model square whenever you want to see the character written properly.
Why repetition is worth the paper
Japanese schoolchildren fill notebooks of squared paper with the same character line after line, because handwriting becomes automatic through repetition and almost no other way. Writing a kana once teaches you its shape; writing it twenty times is what makes your hand produce it without thinking. What a paper workbook cannot do is tell you when a stroke went the wrong way, so a bad habit gets practiced as faithfully as a good one. This sheet keeps the repetition and adds the correction.
Practice sheets you can print
Prefer real paper and a real pencil? Every character page on this site carries a printable practice sheet with the stroke order and a grid to copy into, alongside an animated stroke-order guide. Open any character from the hiragana chart and print its sheet, then come back to the workbook when you want your strokes checked. The two go together well: print for the desk, workbook for the correction.
Where to go next
New to a character? Learn its strokes first on the hiragana chart or its own row page, then fill a line here. Once a row is comfortable, test it without the model on the recall drill, or sharpen the characters that are due for review in review. The same handwriting scores follow you across all three, so time spent here counts everywhere else on the site.
Repetition is how handwriting becomes automatic. On paper you would fill a notebook line with the same kana; this sheet does the same thing, but watches every stroke. The first squares in each row show a faint tracing ghost, and the rest are blank so you write from the model alone.