Tip: Press the shift key on your own keyboard while writing to quickly and conveniently switch between the Hiragana and Katakana input methods.
Typing Romaji... | Hiragana | Katakana |
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n | n (no converting) | n (no converting) |
nn | ん | ン |
na | な | ナ |
a | あ | ア |
a= | ぁ [small あ] | ァ [small ア] |
tsu | つ | ツ |
wo | を | ヲ |
Script | sentence element |
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KANJI | Stems of nouns, verbs and adjectives e.g. 車 (eng. a car) |
HIRAGANA | Auxiliary verbs, suffixes, endings, particles, children's books, private correspondence (chat, for example), and as a pronunciation aid for difficult kanjis. |
KATAKANA | Transcription of foreign words
E.g. keyboard キーボード (kībōdo), Input in katakana input mode with Latin letters: "ki" + "-" + "bo" + "-" + "do" |
Text2Speech | You can listen to your Japanese text | |
Grammar checker | You can run grammar check on your Japanese text. | |
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Voice input | Your voice is converted into Japanese text while you speak (Possible with the browsers: Chrome, Edge and Safari) |
Japanese translation | You can use the Japanese translator to translate the text into a variety of other languages, such as German, Spanish etc. |