RomajiDesu - Japanese dictionary and translator.
Japanese names are usually written in kanji (Chinese characters, see Kanji). Surnames are almost always in kanji. Given names are usually in kanji. Some given names are in hiragana or katakana (see Hiragana and katakana). Japanese people do not have middle names, and middle names are not recognized in Japan, except for foreigners.
Note that the particle wa is the same as the hiragana ha, eis the same as the hiragana he, and the particle o is different from the normal hiragana o. Hiragana is the first writing system taught to Japanese children, so low-level children's books are written exclusively in hiragana, and even in more advanced level texts, difficult kanji will have the pronunciation written above in hiragana.
You may feel angry, but don't write an angry letter. If you can engage your recipient in a one-to-one dialogue and exchange banter, you're less likely to get a computergenerated response.
Online keyboard to type the Hiragana characters of the Japanese language.
Learn how to say the time in Japanese. You'll learn the hours, minutes, how to say the time of day in Japanese and other Japanese phrases related to time.
Hiragana (the blue characters in our sample text) are recognizable for their roundish shape and you’ll find them being used for three functions in Japanese writing: 1. Particles (used to indicate the grammatical function of a word).
Writing exclusively in hiragana is okay, but makes it a bit more difficult to read. Words can get “jumbled” together because Japanese doesn’t use spaces. It’s also a bit childish to write only in hiragana — children write exclusively in hiragana until they start learning kanji in grade school.