Transliteration

Japanese – ISO 3602 (Kunrei-shiki) transliteration system

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Hepburn ISO 3602 (Kunrei-shiki)

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Japanese virtual keyboard

The Japanese virtual keyboard allows you to enter characters with a click of your mouse. There’s no need to change your keyboard layout anymore. The transliteration of each supported character is displayed on the right side of the character. You can then directly transliterate your text from one script to the other according to the selected transliteration system.

Language overview

Japanese language (nihongo, 日本語) belongs to the isolate Japonic language family which also includes the Ryukyuan languages. Spoken in Japan, it has three complementary writing systems: the hiragana syllabary for cursive writing, the katakana syllabary for words of foreign origin other than Chinese, and the kanjis for the logograms of Chinese origin.

Transliteration system: ISO 3602 (Kunrei-shiki)

This system was originally promulgated as Japanese Cabinet Order No. 3 in September 1937. It is recognized in the standard ISO 3602 in 1989, also recommended by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) in 1994. Despite its official recognition, Kunrei-shiki has never gained widespread acceptance, as the Japanese government as the English-speaking world are still using the Hepburn system.

Other transliteration system for Japanese

The other currently supported transliteration system for Japanese is Hepburn.

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• Japanese
• Counting in Japanese

Other supported languages

The other supported languages are: Abkhaz, Adyghe, Altai, Armenian (eastern, classical), Armenian (western), Azerbaijani (Azeri), Bashkir, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Carrier, Cherokee, Chuvash, Erzya, Georgian, Greek, Ingush, Inuktitut, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Moldovan, Old Church Slavonic, Ossetian, Russian, Serbian, Tamazight, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Vai, and Yakut.