Free Printable Genkō Yōshi Paper (PDF)
Genkō yōshi (原稿用紙) is the squared manuscript paper Japanese students use for writing practice and compositions. This sheet has the same layout as our Genkō Yōshi notebook: vertical columns of large squares with a narrow column for furigana between them.
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Free for personal and classroom use, not for resale. Terms of use
What’s on the page
- Layout
- 10 vertical columns of squares with furigana gaps
- Square size
- about ½ in (12 mm)
- Best for
- hiragana, katakana, kanji, short compositions
- Paper sizes
- US Letter (8.5 × 11 in) and A4
- Pages
- 1
Tips
- Japanese is written top to bottom and right to left, so start in the rightmost column.
- One character per square, including small kana and punctuation.
- Use the narrow gap to the right of each column for furigana readings.
