Translator
Input | Latin |
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Hiragana | |
Katakana | |
Output | Kana |
Kanji | |
English | |
Stroke Order |
Input | Latin |
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Hiragana | |
Katakana | |
Output | Kana |
Kanji | |
English | |
Stroke Order |
This translator is intended to look up Japanese words by their pronunciation. It does so using the excellent dictionary at jisho.org.
To input words, write their latin transcription based on the Hepburn Romanization. Multiple words, separated by space, can be searched simultaneously.
Thanks to the awesome font from nihilistorguk you can see the correct stroke order for the Japanese characters by clicking on the buttons in the last row. (Might take a while for them to appear if you don't have their 17 MB font installed on your system.)
Thanks to whoever runs www.csse.monash.edu.au you can now hear the Japanese words read aloud, with the little play button in the English row. They don't have sound samples for every word, though.
To prevent unnecessary connections to the sound sample server I wrapped the Flash player inside a button. The first click at ► now merely loads the player, the second will play the file.
Fixed a couple bugs, searching is now both more exhaustive and faster.
It's now possible to input kanji or kana (or whatever) directly. So you could enter, for instance, tomodachi, ともだち, 友だち or even 友dachi.
In the katakana row, double vowels will be auto-replaced with vowel + chōonpu.
HTML 5 Ruby!
If your browser is Firefox and can't render the 振り仮名 properly, there's a plugin for that.
Slight changes with inputting chōonpu, now both ~ and - are supported.
HTML5 <audio>
! Instead of that abominable Flash. Still many thanks www.csse.monash.edu.au!! uwu
As per my tests, Safari doesn't support <audio>
and/or MP3, sorry about that; that's what you get for using that one I guess.
Input | To search for | Stroke Order | Audio |
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tomodachi | 友達 | ||
kitte | 切手 | ||
kun'yomi | 訓読み | ||
ra-men or raamen | 拉麺 |