following table reads, in gojuon order, as a, i, u, e, o (down first column), then ka, ki, ku, ke, ko (down second column), and so on. n appears on its own at the end. Asterisks mark unused combinations.

*There are presently no kana for ye, yi or wu, as corresponding syllables do not occur natively in modern Japanese.
**The (ye) sound is believed to have existed in pre-Classical Japanese, mostly before the advent of kana, and can be represented by the man'yogana