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  2. Hiragana and katakana place names - Wikipedia

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    There are a small number of municipalities in Japan whose names are written in hiragana or katakana, together known as kana, rather than kanji as is traditional for Japanese place names. [1] Many city names written in kana have kanji equivalents that are either phonetic manyōgana, or whose kanji are outside of the jōyō kanji.

  3. JMdict - Wikipedia

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    As of March 2023, it contains JapaneseEnglish translations for around 199,000 entries, representing 282,000 unique headword-reading combinations. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The dictionary files are free to use with attribution ( Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike [ 4 ] ) and have been widely adopted on the Internet and are used in many computer ...

  4. Line breaking rules in East Asian languages - Wikipedia

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    The line breaking rules in East Asian languages specify how to wrap East Asian Language text such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.Certain characters in those languages should not come at the end of a line, certain characters should not come at the start of a line, and some characters should never be split up across two lines.

  5. Eijirō - Wikipedia

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    Eijirō (英辞郎) is a large database of EnglishJapanese translations. It is developed by the editors of the Electronic Dictionary Project and aimed at translators. Although the contents are technically the same, EDP refers to the accompanying JapaneseEnglish database as Waeijirō (和英辞郎).

  6. Category:Japanese writing system - Wikipedia

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    Simple English; کوردی ... Pages in category "Japanese writing system" The following 59 pages are in this category, out of 59 total. This list may not reflect ...

  7. Romanization of Japanese - Wikipedia

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    The earliest Japanese romanization system was based on Portuguese orthography.It was developed c. 1548 by a Japanese Catholic named Anjirō. [2] [citation needed] Jesuit priests used the system in a series of printed Catholic books so that missionaries could preach and teach their converts without learning to read Japanese orthography.

  8. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Japan-related articles - Wikipedia

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    The English Wikipedia is an English-language encyclopedia. If an English loan word or place name of Japanese origin exists, it should be used in its most common English form in the body of an article, even if it is pronounced or spelled differently from the properly romanized Japanese; that is, use Mount Fuji, Tokyo, jujutsu, and shogi, instead of Fuji-san, Tōkyō, jūjutsu, and shōgi.

  9. Transcription into Japanese - Wikipedia

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    In contemporary Japanese writing, foreign-language loanwords and foreign names are normally written in the katakana script, which is one component of the Japanese writing system. As far as possible, sounds in the source language are matched to the nearest sounds in the Japanese language, and the result is transcribed using standard katakana ...