Hiragana

Hiragana is originally driven from Chinese Writing (Kanji). Japanese at that time used Chinese letters which sounds like the what that letter of Hiragana sounds like and converted to each letter for Hiragana.

Just a reminder. All A E I O U is not long sound vowel like we use in English. It's short. So for A, it sounds like "A"bout, not s"A"le. For I, it sounds like "I"t, not "I"ce. For U, it sounds like "oo"ps, not "U"topia. For E, it sounds like "E"lephant, not "E"at. For O, it sounds like "O"ps, not Oct"o"ber. Rest are the combination.

So for example, hiragana will spell ひらがな.