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Japanese

Switch on 日本語. The keys are the QWERTY letters, as in English, and the space bar shows 日本語.

Type​

  1. Type the romaji letter by letter. Flikzi reads the letters as kana.
  2. The strip offers conversions: the best one for the whole reading, dictionary words, hiragana and katakana, then words for its start.
  3. Space puts in the best conversion. Enter puts in the kana as they are.

A doubled consonant gives っ (kitte → きって). An n before a consonant or at the end gives ん; type nn, or n and an apostrophe (flick c down), when a vowel follows. A hyphen (flick h down) gives the long mark ー.

Choose in parts​

Tap a candidate that covers only the start, and the rest stays for you to convert.

English words​

With English words in Chinese and Japanese on (the default), English words for the same letters appear among the candidates. When the letters can't be romaji, or no Japanese word reads that way, the English word comes first and space puts it in.

Punctuation is full-width: 、。！？

Not available​

Next-word predictions after a conversion, a kana keyboard (flick input on a kana grid), capital letters and text shortcuts.