In iKnow!, we follow the same conventions that Japanese people do when it comes to typing Japanese, which is to use "word-processor romanization" (ワープロローマ字）. The conversion process is built into the application itself, so you only need to use English input. Japanese input is NOT accepted.
Please refer to
this page for an explanation.
Here a few quick pointers:
Long vowels
To lengthen an
o or
u sound, add
u
Examples:
ku → く kū: kuu → くう
ju → じゅ jū: juu → じゅう
kyo → きょ kyō: kyou → きょう
To lengthen other vowels, repeat the vowel:
ki → き kii → きい
obaasan → おばあさん
（In katakana, the long dash-like symbol is used to lengthen the vowel. i.e. te-buru → テーブル )
The exception is え which takes an
i to lengthen
e → え ei → えい
Typing ん
Type
nn if the ん is at the end of the word, or the next character is a vowel.
For example,
jikann → じかん
dennatsu → でんあつ
(typing denatsu converts to でなつ）
Typing づ
Type
du to produce the づ in つづく
Typing を
Type
wo to produce the "o" in ごはん を たべる
Double consonants and typing っ
Type double consonants to produce the っ
Examples:
kitte → きって
gakkou → がっこう
Typing small vowels
This is only usually used to write katakana (loan words from other languages)
Type
x before it. For example,
uxe-ruzu → ウェールズ (Wales)
halouxi-n → ハロウィーン (Halloween)
For ティ, you can type
thi:
mi-thingu → ミーティング (meeting)
or you can type
xi
pa-texi → パーティ (party)
Tags:
typing Japanese
Category:
Learning Applications
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