Romanization of Japanese

Japanese language written in Latin script From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Japanese uses the Roman alphabet as well as kanji, hiragana, and katakana. Romanized text being used for Japanese words, for example for computers, is called romaji (ローマ字).

Differences among romanizations

This chart shows in full the three main systems for the romanization of Japanese: Hepburn, Nihon-shiki and Kunrei-shiki:

More information Hiragana, Katakana ...

This chart shows differences, which can be clearly seen among them:

More information Kana, Revised Hepburn ...
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