Choose your reading.
Hiragana, katakana and romaji, with normal, spaced, okurigana and furigana output modes.
● OPEN-SOURCE JAPANESE LANGUAGE LIBRARY
Japanese,
in another reading.
Turn Japanese text into hiragana, katakana or romaji. Add readings with furigana. One JavaScript library, more ways to read.
ONE LANGUAGE, MANY READINGS01 — 04
KANJI黒白
HIRAGANAくろしろ
KATAKANAクロシロ
ROMAJIkuroshiro
A little clarity, character by character.
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Choose Hepburn, Nippon or Passport romanization. Use an analyzer suited to your environment.
From learning to creating.
Add reading aids to a Japanese learning tool, annotate text, or explore pronunciation in your own app.
THE PLAYGROUND
Give your words another form.
Real conversion, right here.
No account. No conversion server.
日本語 · up to 5,000 characters
Your readingCONVERTED OUTPUT
Start the demo to load the dictionary, then convert your text.
↳ Loaded only when you start: about 17 MiB of dictionary files, plus library scripts. Repeat visits may use your browser’s cache. Your text stays in this browser.
SMALL API. MANY POSSIBILITIES.
A few lines.
A new way to read.
Install kuroshiro and an analyzer, initialize once, then convert. This example uses Kuromoji in a JavaScript module environment.
Read the documentation ↗QUICK STARTJavaScript
npm install kuroshiro kuroshiro-analyzer-kuromojiimport Kuroshiro from "kuroshiro";
import KuromojiAnalyzer from "kuroshiro-analyzer-kuromoji";
const kuroshiro = new Kuroshiro();
await kuroshiro.init(new KuromojiAnalyzer());
const text = "感じ取れたら手を繋ごう、重なるのは人生のライン and レミリア最高！";
const result = await kuroshiro.convert(text, {
to: "hiragana"
});BUILT IN THE OPEN
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