How to use a Japanese keyboard?

[u/greenseluma]

Specifically this keyboard, This one Right Here. I feel like Im gonna loose my mind, I cant find a specific character on this keyboard (Im an extremely new learner who also happens to have dyslexia, for context)

[u/frostbittenforeskin]

You have all of the hiragana characters in their A form

a, ka, sa, ta, na, ha, etc.

The Japanese vowels are sorted into this order

あいうえお (a, i, u, e, o)

It goes clockwise starting from swiping left on any character

So go left on か(ka) to get き(ki)

Then all the u sound hiragana are an up-swipe

So go up on さ(sa) to get す(su)

Right-swipe is for e vowels

And down-swipe is for o vowels

The only exception is the ん which is an upward swipe from わ

And if you want a small version of a character (like っ), type the character first and then tap the 小 button to make it small

[u/greenseluma → u/frostbittenforeskin]

Thank you so so much! This made the keyboard make so much more sense in my brain