Like I said, all the Hiragana characters are, in a sense, made of two letters smooshed together. Except ん. ん is just a nasal sound. Kinda halfway between "m" and "n". But don't take my word for it. Go listen to some random Japanese people talking on YouTube and see if you can pick out this nasal character in their speech.
Since it's just a nasal sound with nothing else involved, it's written as one letter in Romanji. Usually the letter n. Sometimes m.
Oh yeah, and then there are some characters which are just lonely vowels. With no consonants to pair with them.
Japanese has a lot of weird exceptions!
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