Kanji -> Romanji translator?

Bushido Philosopher · Post by **Bushido Philosopher** » Sun Jun 29, 2003 3:41 pm

Anyone know of a translator (online or program) that can translate kanji to romaji? I want to know the names of some peopl,e but I don't know kanji. And of course if I stick it in most translators it'll translate it into the actual word rather than the romaji name.

So can anyone help me?

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Sun Jun 29, 2003 3:56 pm

Do you have the kanji in text format? That would make work easier... I could help you with that.

If it's not text though... still possible, but a bit time consuming. I've done it before though.

So, gimme the names and I'll try to help ya out

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Sun Jun 29, 2003 4:02 pm

An online translator may well get them right actually... probably not always though.

Names are usually fairly easy to translate, since as a rule they tend to use the Kanji's kun-yomi... if you know what that means...

Nestorath69 · Post by **Nestorath69** » Sun Jun 29, 2003 9:39 pm

Do a search on JquickTrans
It's a translation software... it might help you out.

Lyrs · Post by **Lyrs** » Sun Jun 29, 2003 9:46 pm

i don't think that alta vista fishies work with knaji, oh well.

/end

aaronlye · Post by **aaronlye** » Sun Jun 29, 2003 10:37 pm

It's not exactly what you're looking for but this website http://www.rikai.com/perl/Home.pl translates kanji into hiragana (which you can then look up with a hiragana chart for the romaji spelling) and also gives possible English meanings for the words.

Nestorath69 · Post by **Nestorath69** » Mon Jun 30, 2003 7:48 am

If ya DL the JQuickTrans software... (I think you can get it from www.coolest.com) It translates from english to romanji to hirigana to kanji- and I think there's more. C'mon. You know you want to...

SilverAeon · Post by **SilverAeon** » Mon Jul 14, 2003 2:17 pm

I once thought romanli and kanji were the same thing.......SOMEONE please explain this to me!!

Bushido Philosopher · Post by **Bushido Philosopher** » Mon Jul 14, 2003 5:06 pm

Huh, wow I never realized that actual japanese characters could be inputted without it just being a buncha question marks.

Oh yes, to answer silveraeon's question....

To make it simple: kanji are the complicated characters you see. Katakana is an alphabet used for foreign words, mostly English. Hiragana is the base of kanij. It is a simpler version of kanij in a sense. Romanij is the English alphabet version of the Japanese alphabet.

Wow, now that I think about it, it's really hard to put into words....you just know it when you see it. Uhm...try asking someone else or look for a more in-depth guide in a search engine.

Squall08 · Post by **Squall08** » Mon Jul 14, 2003 5:07 pm

I once thought romanli and kanji were the same thing.......SOMEONE please explain this to me!!

im guessing you mean romanji..but thats basically japanese writing/words used with roman/english letters.
and kanji is a b@#$%
but kanji is basically chinese writing...others can explain more, im still new to this stuff

i suck at 'quoting'