Katakana "Cho" Coloring Pages

"Cho" in "Chocolate"

The letters on this coloring page are Katakana "Cho".
The word is "Chocolate". "Cho" is at the start of the word.
The picture on the left is a chocolate bar. The foil is peeled back a little, so you can see the chocolate inside split into square blocks.
It is a favorite treat for everyone that is fun to snap and eat.
Katakana letters are often used for words from other countries, names of animals and plants, and sounds or animal noises. "Chocolate" is a word that came from another country, too.

"チ" and a small "ョ" make one sound together

To write Katakana "Cho", you write "Chi" and then add a small "ョ" after it.
You write it with two letters, but you say it as one sound: "Cho". Sounds like this are called 拗音 (youon).
If you make the "ョ" big and write "チヨ", it becomes two separate sounds: "Chi" and "Yo". Writing it small or big changes how you read it!
Try saying "チョコレート" (chocolate) while clapping your hands. For Katakana "Cho", you only need to clap your hands once.

The Kanji That Formed Katakana "Cho"

Katakana are characters that were made by taking a part of a Kanji or using the shape of a Kanji.
It is said that they started long ago when monks used them to quickly write down how to read the Kanji in scriptures.
"Chi" came from the Kanji "千". If you put "千" and "Chi" side by side, their shapes look very similar, don't they?
The small "Yo" is a smaller version of the big "Yo", and "Yo" came from the Kanji "与".

Tips for writing Katakana "Cho"

"チ" has 3 strokes.
For the 1st stroke, make a short line at the top and sweep down to the left.
For the 2nd stroke, draw a longer horizontal line in the middle.
For the 3rd stroke, start near the middle of the horizontal line, go down, and sweep to the left at the end.
Little "ョ" has the same stroke order as big "ヨ", and it has 3 strokes.
When you write sideways, write it small in the bottom left of the box. Be careful not to make it the same size as "チ".

Words that start with "Cho"

Words that start with "Cho" include the fluttering butterfly, scissors in rock-paper-scissors, and chalk for writing on the blackboard.
Sitting quietly and neatly is chokon, and a tiny little bit is choppiri, which also start with "Cho"!
Try saying words with "Cho" while making the "scissors" sign in rock-paper-scissors!

Color Katakana "Cho" in Two Different Colors

The big Katakana "Cho" at the top right is a letter you can color inside the lines.
If you color the big "チ" and the small "ョ" in different colors, you can easily see that it is made of two letters.
It will look tasty if you make "チ" brown like chocolate and the small "ョ" pink like strawberry chocolate.
It is also fun to change colors for each stroke, like line 1 and line 2 of the stroke order!

Chocolate Is Brown, Foil Is Gray

Color the chocolate with brown or dark brown.
If you color the top of the blocks a little light and the sides a little dark, the blocks will look bumpy.
If you color the foil with light gray and leave some white spots, it will look shiny.
Color the outer wrapper with your favorite colors, like red, blue, or gold. If you want to make white chocolate, you can color the chocolate part cream color.

Tracing Is Done in Pairs of Two

In the boxes at the bottom right, there are 4 pairs of light gray Katakana "Cho". You can see "チ" in the left box and a small "ョ" in the right box.
Hold your pencil the right way, and trace slowly over the gray lines so you do not go outside them.
If you use the vertical and horizontal center lines in the boxes as a guide, it is easy to learn the spot and size of the letters.
Check to see if the small "ョ" fits in the bottom left of the box, too.
Every time you trace 1 pair, say Katakana "Cho" out loud. Then you can learn the letter and sound together!

Chocolate Comes from a Tree Fruit

Chocolate is made from the seeds inside a fruit called cacao.
Cacao trees grow in countries that stay warm all year long, and the fruit grows right on the trunk.
Inside one fruit, you can find a lot of seeds.

It Used to Be a Drink

A long, long time ago, people around where Mexico is today drank a bitter drink made from cacao seeds.
Hard chocolate bars that we eat today were not invented until the 1800s.

Why White Chocolate Is White

Regular chocolate is brown because it has the ground-up brown parts of the cacao seed in it.
White chocolate leaves out those brown parts. It is made with just the fat from the cacao, plus sugar and milk.
That is why it has a white color.

Let's Compare Katakana "Cho" with Hiragana "Cho"

When you write Katakana "Cho" in hiragana, it is 「ちょ」.
The hiragana "Chi" came from the kanji "知", while the katakana "Chi" came from the kanji "千".
Even though they make the same sound, their original kanji are different. That is why "ち" and "チ" look so different from each other.
The small "ょ" and "ョ" both came from the kanji "与", so they are like brothers and sisters.