> By the way, how do you Romanize a word containing > Kanji and Kana? >
There are two steps: 1) Convert all Kanji to kana. Anything that can be pronounced in Japanese can be expressed as the kana equivalent of that pronunciation. However, Kanji cannot be converted one at a time as many words are unique combinations of Kanji with special pronuncations. Also, there can be multiple pronunciations for the same Kanji string. 2) Once you have everything in kana, convert to "Romaji" (Romanized characters) using the Hepburn system. Here are the Romaji equivalents of all the modern kana: a i u e o ka ki ku ke ko sa shi su se so ta chi tsu te to na ni nu ne no ha hi fu he ho ma mi mu me mo ya yu yo ra ri ru re ro wa wo n There is a further complication in that a small kana tsu is used to represent a double consonant when a word is written as kana, whereas the consonant is merely written twice in the Romaji equivalent. By the way, Japanese keyboard input is usually handled by typing Romaji which can then be converted to kana and further converted into Kanji. http://www.omniglot.com/writing/japanese.htm http://www.kanjisite.com/wak1.html
