What do you see in Hiragana characters ? ( for learning ) Hello I noticed that a lot of people are learning Japense characters from thinking of a image or a story behind it, I noticed I personally do it aswell but most of time I get stuck because they look for me all kinda similar and/or the idea I get for a character is getting repetitive. ku '' く '' I think of a beak from a bird, which is opening up for making the ku sound A ''あ'' A cross from Jesus and below it his fish Shi ''し'' I saw a video and they said you can think of a girl like in ''she'' and the character is her hair Just a small example of what I mean.