Hit the brakes. Just because you know how to enable IME, doesn't mean you know how to type in Japanese. It's pretty easy once you've figured it out, but can be tricky if you've never done it before.
If you learned Japanese in a classroom, you probably did a lot of handwriting practice. If you're lucky, you didn't use much romaji, and jumped straight into hiragana and katakana. That's great! But being familiar with the two most common romaji, or romanization systems of Japanese, makes typing much easier.
It can also help you find simple typing shortcuts, especially if you're using a romaji keyboard to type in Japanese. Keep that in mind while you read! Before you start, turn on your Japanese keyboard. If you don't have a Japanese keyboard or don't know how to get one on your device, follow our step-by-step IME installation instructions before proceeding.
Below are tables. These tables display Japanese keyboard characters and the inputs you type to make them appear.
The roman letter or combination of letters you need to type to display a given character are displayed below that character. Again, this is where romaji will be helpful.
If you know how a Japanese word is spelled in romaji, you can type it on your Japanese keyboard. To switch from hiragana to katakana, usually all you have to do is hit the spacebar after you've typed the word in hiragana. If you spelled the word correctly, your IME will almost always recommend the word in katakana. If it doesn't, you may need to double check how it's officially spelled with an online dictionary like Jisho.
Those are the basics, but there are a lot of other characters and symbols you should know how to type. Let's take a look at a few! Becoming familiar with romaji is essential.
Read more about what Romaji is here. Romaji is a literal spelling or romanization of how you would pronounce the various Japanese kana. Most Japanese language input methods on both computers and smart devices accept both the Hepburn system below and the Kunreishiki system. Typing contractions works in much the same way — type how they are pronounced and the input method will automatically format the smaller characters.
Form the long contractions simply by adding a u at the end. This works roughly in the same way — type how they are pronounced using your English or romaji keyboard. For the long dakuten contractions, add the extra u. After typing your word in romaji, you will see your computer automatically convert it to hiragana, katakana or kanji and a few other smart options , based on its Japanese conversion rules and your past preferred characters. If you want to select specifically the hiragana version after it has converted it to katakana or kanji, or see what other conversions are available, press space on your keyboard.
Press Space to see what other options are available. Keep pressing Space or Tab or use the arrow keys to cycle through the options, then press Enter when the one you want to use is highlighted, or immediately if you want to use the word your computer selected for you.
Various auto-suggest options will be shown above the keyboard when you are entering Japanese on a smartphone or tablet. To type this, type the Japanese word in romaji using a double consonant to indicate this pause. The more casual Japanese you see on social media often uses half-height characters for vowel sounds. Note that the input methods on all operating systems and devices will try to autocorrect away from these old forms. Most applications, including Google Docs will have trouble with the older forms of yori and koto.
Smartphones and tablets also have this as an input option. Look for the handwriting input method for Traditional Chinese. Once you have selected this input method, draw the characters with your mouse or finger to input the kanji. Of course, now that you know how to type in kana and kanji, you need to know how to use Japanese punctuation. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams?
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