Japanese To English Characters
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Japanese to english characters. Kana itself consists of a pair of syllabaries. Press shift for additional japanese letters that are not visible on the keyboard. The list is sorted by japanese reading on yomi in katakana then kun yomi in hiragana in accordance with the ordering in the official jōyō table. Logographic kanji which are adopted chinese characters and syllabic kana.
For brevity only one english translation is given per kanji. Use and keys to view the prev next suggestions. The modern japanese writing system is a combination of two character types. The space key can be used to select the first suggestion.
Hiragana used for native or naturalised japanese words and grammatical elements and katakana used for foreign words and names loanwords onomatopoeia scientific names and sometimes for emphasis.