B 04How to Type in Japanese

How do you TYPE in Japanese?

Index

• Tip 1: ん n

• Tip 4: Kanji

• How do you type in Japanese?

• Tip 2: っ small tsu• Tip 3: Katakana

• Setting Up Japanese Font

• Tip 5: Particles は を へ

Setting Up Japanese Font: Page 1If you want to type in Japanese, make sure to set up the Japanese font in your computer, first. It’s easy.

Open Word. Click EN in the tool bar.1

Choose Show the Language bar.2

Setting Up Japanese Font: Page 2The Language bar pops up.Click the small arrow pointing down. Choose Settings….3

Choose Add.4

Setting Up Japanese Font: Page 3Scroll down and find Japanese (Japan) – Microsoft IME.Tick the box. Click OK then Apply.5

Setting Up Japanese Font: Page 4Go back to the Language bar. Choose Japanese.6

Click the key board icon. Choose Microsoft IME.7

Click A Input Mode. Choose Hiragana.8

Setting Up Japanese Font: Page 5

When you see あ next to Input Mode, you are ready!

Alt + Shift

You can always go back to English in the Language Bar.

Or, super handy short cut key to change English – Japanese is:

How do you type in Japanese?To type in Japanese, you basically type it in Roma-ji. Roma-ji literally means “Roman Characters”. They are used to tell you how to read Japanese words in English characters. See some example of Roma-ji on top of words in Japanese.

So, when you type “a” then あ appears.When you type “sushi” then すし appears.When you type “nihongo” then にほんご appears.

a

あsu shi

すし ni ho n go

にほんご

Make sure you know that it’s NOT a translator. If you type “Japanese” in Japanese Input mode, then じゃぱねせ appears which does not make sense. Type how you say it in Japanese like “nihongo” for “Japanese”.

How do you type in Japanese?So, to type Japanese in Roma-ji, Hiragana chart helps.

W R Y M H N T S K

わ ら や ま は な た さ か あ a

り み ひ に ち し き い I

ん る ゆ む ふ ぬ つ す く う u

れ め へ ね て せ け え e

を ろ よ も ほ の と そ こ お o

Let’s Read Hiragana!

すし

In a Word file, try typing up the following words. Can you get correct Hiragana spellings?

su shi

からて

ka ra te

せんせい se n se i

つなみ

tsu na mi

わさび

しいたけ shi I ta ke

wa sa bi